Fort v. Brinkley’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1996 · most notably Jordan v. De George (1951), Hunter v. Underwood (1985)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 Marianna v. Vincent · Bell v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘immoral itself, regardless of the fact whether it is punishable by law. The doing of the act itself, and not its prohibition by statute, fixes the moral turpitude.’ ’’ Id. at 616 , 73 So. at 342 (quoting Fort v. City of Brinkley, 87 Ark. 400 , 112 S.W. 1084 (1908)). The attorney general in opinion has acknowledged that the classification of presently unaddressed offenses”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Offenses against the liquor laws, such as illegal sales of intoxicants, keeping liquor in possession with the intent to dispose of it unlawfully, illegally transporting liquor from place to place, and the like, are statutory crimes, not being punishable at common law. They are also of the description mala pro-hibita, as there is no inherent immorality in such acts, and their illegality lies only in the fact of their being positively prohibited.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It seems clearly dedueible from the above cited authorities that the words ‘moral turpitude’ had a positive and fixed meaning at common law . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. De George
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.