In re Hoover’s Empirical Analysis
30 F. 51 · 1887
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1995
2 state decisions
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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · Railroad Company v. Husen · Bartemeyer v. Iowa · In Re Thomas Kaine an Alleged Fugitive from Great Britain
Most-quoted passages
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““Persons, before obtaining license to retail spirituous liquors, or sell tlie same in any quantity less than one gallon, must apply to the ordinary of the county, or to the county commissioners of the county where such courts exist, in which they desire to retail or sell in any quantity less than one gallon, who have power to grant or refuse such application. Before any license shall be granted, the applicant shall present to the ordinary the written consent of ten of the nearest bona fide residents, five of whom shall be freeholders owning land, irrespective of county lines, nearest to the place of business where such spirituous liquors are to be sold: provided that this act shítll not apply to incorporated towns or cities. When such application is granted and entered on the minutes, the applicant shall execute a bond, with sufficient security, in the sum of five hundred dollars, payable to such ordinary, conditioned to keep an orderly house, and to abide faithfully by the oath to be taken by him, which bond shall be taken and approved by the ordinary, filed in his office, and recorded in a book kept for that purpose. Any person aggrieved may bring suit on such bond. Licenses granted in any other way are void. They shall also, at the same time, before said ordinary, take and subscribe the following oath: ‘ I swear that I will not, during the next twelve months, sell, barter, give, or furnish spirituous or intoxicating liquors, in any quantity, to any minor, either white or c”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The right to sell intoxicating liquors is not one of the privileges and immunities of a citizen of the United States which by that amendment the states were forbidden to abridge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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