In re Christensen’s Empirical Analysis
43 F. 243 · 1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1921
1 federal appellate ·
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 · Royall · Boardman v. Toffey · In re Quong Woo
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is sought by counsel for the city, as was attempted by the state Supreme Court, to distinguish this ease from the laundry ordinance case cited, on the ground that the laundry business is a necessary business, and eannot be wholly suppressed, but only regulated, for the purposes of securing safety from fires, while selling liquor is supposed to be injurious to society per se, and may be wholly prohibited or permitted upon such conditions as may be prescribed; that the power to absolutely prohibit necessarily includes the power to impose any terms or conditions, however arbitrary, no matter what, less than absolute prohibition, and, consequently, that the power to grant or refuse a license may be delegated to the arbitrary and unregulated will of one or more persons, official or unofficial. I cannot, as at present advised, assent to this proposition. This ordinance does not limit or regulate, or propose to limit or regulate, the sale of liquors. Tt would seem to be upon its face, like other license ordinances, a mere revenue measure. It does not prohibit .the sale of liquors, or limit their sale to any particular portion of the city, or to any number of persons, nor prescribe any qualifications whatever which shall be necessary to entitle a party to a license, or prescribe any conditions or characteristics which shall constitute a disqualification and debar one from obtaining a license. It is not a matter of regulation at all. It simply provides that no license shall issue ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The validity of an ordinance must be determined by its terms, by what it authorizes, not by the manner of its execution. It is valid or invalid irrespective of tho manner in which it is in fact administered. Its capability of being abused is the test.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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