Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"If a man who had no bar fitted up and no provision made for supplying all who apply, and no accommodations inviting the public, should sell liquor on a single Sunday, there would be an absence of circumstances to lead a jury to infer that he was engaged in the business of carrying on an illegal traffic. On the contrary, if his premises are specially adapted to, and furnished for the pursuit of the unlawful business, and persons who apply are generally admitted to enter his premises on a Sunday, then the further proof that there are repetitions of the sale of spirituous or malt liquors on that single Sunday would constitute a state of facts from which a jury would be justified in finding that the keeper of such a house was guilty of the common practice of violating the law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Clark