Hammond v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably 16 Cal. 3d 392 - Agricultural Labor Relations Board v. Superior Court (1976), Merrill v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1969)
53 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 5 Cal. 2d 714 - People v. Ottey · Carter v. Commission on Qualifications of Judicial Appointments · 6 Cal. 2d 537 - Kaiser v. Hopkins · Wheeler v. Herbert · Crowe v. Boyle
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No definitions of the terms used appear in the Constitution. In absence of such definitions, the words, having no technical meaning, will be taken in the ordinary and generally accepted sense. [Citations omitted.] The words `saloon' and `barroom,' as used in connection with the sale of intoxicating liquor, import a place where such liquors are sold for consumption on the premises [citations omitted]; to which Webster's New International Dictionary, 2d ed., first published in 1934, adds, in case of a saloon, that such sales are `commonly without meals.' ... It is a matter of common knowledge of which we may take judicial notice, that the saloons and barrooms existing before the enactment of prohibition, which undoubtedly it was the intent of this constitutional amendment to prohibit, were not devoted to the furnishing of meals. They did, in some cases, furnish `free lunches,' usually of rather minor character; but the business for which they were established was the selling of intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises, and any furnishing of food or meals was purely incidental to that business. Persons whose main object was the obtaining of meals, even if they desired drinks of intoxicants with them, went to restaurants and cafes, whose principal business was the serving of meals, not of intoxicants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Intoxicating liquors, other than beers, shall not be consumed, bought, sold, or otherwise disposed of for consumption on the premises, in any public saloon, public bar or public barroom within the State; provided, however, that subject to the aforesaid restriction, all intoxicating liquors may be kept and may be bought, sold, served, consumed, and otherwise disposed of in any bona fide hotel, restaurant, cafe, cafeteria, railroad dining or club car, passenger ship, or other public eating place, or in any bona fide club after such club has been lawfully operated for not less than one year." Hammond v. McDonald, 49 Cal. App.2d at 675 .”
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.