McLean v. People’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 12 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As human knowledge grows with experience, the facts of which judicial notice will be taken are constantly increasing. It, is a matter of common knowledge that alcoholáis the intoxicating element of all intoxicating liquors. We also think it has become a matter of common knowledge to all well informed men that Jamaica ginger is an intoxicating liquor, and that the court, might, from the facts in this case, well have so'told the jury. Its high per cent, of alcohol (90%) is required to hold the ginger in solution. But it is the alcohol which retains its intoxicating effect, and not the ginger, that produces intoxication. While it is true that Jamaica ginger is manufactured to be used as a medicine and not as a drink, still it is a familiar fact that it is often used as a substitute for whisky, and that, while half a teaspoonful is a dose as medicine, it is capable of being used, and is used and drunk, as an intoxicating liquor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Philpott

2. ““The act includes within its provisions intoxicating liquors of every kind and character which now are in use, or which in the future may come into use as a beverage, no matter by what name they may be named or called, and no matter how small a percentage of alcohol they may contain, and no matter what other ingredients may be in them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Montrose v. Price