Fitzpatrick v. Liquor Control Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1988
2 district · 4 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Crowley v. Christensen · Rast v. Van Deman & Lewis Co. · German Alliance Insurance Company v. Ike Lewis · Lawrence v. State Tax Commission
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The principle upon which is based the regulation of the liquor traffic is found in the police power of the state. No one possesses a natural, inalienable, or constitutional right to keep a saloon for the sale of intoxicating liquors. “To sell intoxicating liquor at retail is not a natural right to pursue an ordinary calling”.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The control of the sale, use, transportation and consumption of intoxicating liquor is peculiarly within the province of legislative powers, and the regulation, or even prohibition thereof, in many instances, does not deprive an individual of property without due process of law, or deny him equal protection of the laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It was early settled in this State that the right to regulate or prohibit traffic in intoxicating liquor is based on the police power of the State and that restrictions and conditions which may be imposed upon the liquor traffic are entirely within the discretion of the people, acting through the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.