Brooks v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions

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

1. ““But it is a sensible and well understood rule of construction that when after an enumeration, the statute employs some general term to embrace other cases, the other cases must be understood to be cases of the same general character, sort or kind with those named.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nowack v. Auditor General · Park Building Co. v. George P. Yost Fur Co.

2. ““Every wife, child, parent, guardian, husband, or other person who shall be injured in person or property, or means -of support, by any intoxicated person, or by reason of the intoxication of any person, or by reason of the selling, giving, or furnishing any spirituous, intoxicating, fermented, or malt liquors to any person, shall have a right of action in his or her own name against any person or persons who shall, by selling or giving any intoxicating or malt liquor, have caused -or contributed * * * to such injury,” etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Flower v. Witkovsky

3. “stand in some one of the domestic relations to the person to whom the liquor is sold, given or furnished.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 511 So. 2d 159 - Ward v. Rhodes, Hammonds, and Beck, Inc.