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Irving v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis

1894

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
5
states following
September 1963
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1963

2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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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 People v. . Gillson · Horner v. United States · People Ex Rel. City of Rochester v. Briggs · Sweet v. . City of Syracuse · Hull v. . Ruggles

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “From all the cases these are collected as the constituent elements of a lottery, namely: First, an expedient held out to the public; which, secondly, for a pecuniary consideration, offers the possibility and promise of a gain, not the product of the outlay, but contingent merely upon a designated chance event. As the name imports, the lot or chance is the essential property of the unlawful enterprise, and the allurement to the public the incident that aggravates its mischievous quality.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wells v. Penney Co.
  2. “A `lottery' is a scheme for the distribution of property by chance, among persons who have paid or agreed to pay a valuable consideration for the chance, whether called a lottery, raffle, or gift enterprise or by some other name.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wells v. Penney Co.

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.