McCullough v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2017
10 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie manliest object of tlie act is that the state shall monopolize the entire traffic in intoxicating liquors, to the entire exclusion of all persons whomsoever, and this, too, for the purpose of profit to the state and its governmental agency. * * * Wo think it safe to say that it is an act forbidding the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage within the limits of this state by any private individual, and vesting the right to manufacture and sell such liquors in the state exclusively, through certain designated officers and agents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lowenstein v. Evans
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.