Queensgate Investment Co. v. Liquor Control Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000 · most notably 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island (1996), Posadas De Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Co. of Puerto Rico (1986)
10 federal appellate · 8 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 Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Bigelow v. Virginia · Ziffrin, Inc. v. Reeves · Burger Brewing Co. v. Thomas
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.
“Advertising, however tasteless and excessive it sometimes may seem, is nonetheless dissemination of information as to who is producing and selling what product, for what reason, and at what price. So long as we preserve a predominantly free enterprise economy, the allocation of our resources in large measure will be made through numerous private economic decisions. It is a matter of public interest that those decisions, in the aggregate, be intelligent and well informed. To this end, the free flow of commercial information is indispensable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he advertising of drink prices and price advantages would encourage and stimulate excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages; and advertising prohibition aids the interest in preventing that consumption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“directly advances the governmental interest asserted, and whether it is not more extensive than is necessary to serve that interest.”
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.