Garrett v. Aby’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1969
14 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 Kidd v. Pearson · Beer Company v. Massachusetts · Stone v. Mississippi · Metropolitan Board of Excise v. . Barrie
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This case does not, in our conception, involve in any manner the liberties or immunities of citizens. It only involves the constitutional power of the Legislature to declare that the vote or decision of the people of a parish shall control the sale of spirituous liquors in a town within its limits. “And substantially the only reason assigned why it has not that power is that by prior statutes the town was, for all political purposes, made free and independent of the parish in that respect. “Recognizing the right of the people to govern and control the sale of intoxicating liquors within any given subdivision of the state, we can see no legal reason for hampering or restraining that right. The General Assembly is the sole and exclusive judge of the time and manner in which the police power of the state shall be exerted, and its action must be liberally construed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.