State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The legislature has traveled very far since that statute was enacted and that case was decided, and a person would make a great mistake to rest conduct upon the liquor law as it then stood. The schemes and shifts and devices to evade the law have been so numerous and cunning, and the social benefits hoped for from regulation of the liquor traffic have been so persistently circumvented, that the legislature has felt it necessary again and again to call upon the people to make personal forbearances in the interest of what has been esteemed the general welfare.” (p. 802.)”

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

2. ““The court understands the legislative intention to "have been, in part, to forestall the consequences flowing from the abuse of intoxicating liquors by curtailing freedom to use them, and to that end to suppress places where persons are permitted merely to resort for the purpose of drinking such beverages.” (The State v. Ross, 86 Kan. 799, 803 , 121 Pac. 908 .)”

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

3. ““All places .... where persons are permitted to resort for the purpose of drinking intoxicating liquor as a beverage . . . . are hereby declared to be common nuisances; and every person who maintains or assists in maintaining such common nuisance shall be guilty of a midemeanor. ’ ’”

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