James Everard's Breweries v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
265 U.S. 545 · 1924
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably City of Boerne v. Flores (1997), United States v. Darby (1941)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 12 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Logan v. United States · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adopt any means, appearing to it most eligible and appropriate, which are adapted to the end to be accomplished and consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While recognizing that there are limits beyond which Congress cannot go in treating beverages as within its power of enforcement, we think those limits are not transcended by the provision of the Volstead Act (title 2, §1), wherein liquors containing as much as one-half of 1 per cent, of alcohol by volume and fit for use for beverage purposes are treated as within that power.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The power to prohibit traffic in intoxicating liquors includes, as an appropriate means of making that prohibition effective, power to prohibit traffic in similiar liquors although non-intoxicating.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.