State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Savage’s Empirical Analysis

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25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Drunkenness is that effect produced on the mind, passions, or body, by intoxicants taken into the system, which so far changes the normal condition, as to materially disturb and impair the capacity for healthy, rational action or conduct; which causes abnormal results, or such as would not ensue, in the absence of the intoxicants—the changed effect produced by the immoderate, or excessive use of intoxicants, as contrasted with normal status and conduct. “Habit is customary state, or disposition, acquired by frequent repetition; aptitude by doing frequently the same thing; usage; established manner. When a person has repeatedly acted in a particular way, at intervals, whether regular or irregular, for such length of time as that we can predicate with reasonable assurance that he will continue so to act, we may affirm that this is his'habit.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Curry v. Curry · Moor v. Moor

2. ““The two phrases, ‘habitual drunkard’ and ‘common drunkard,’ have been held in some states to be synonymous in meaning. . . . Either of the expressions may, in general terms, be defined as meaning one who drinks intoxicating liquors, to excess, with habitual frequency. Indulgence by a person, on the one hand, in occasional acts of drunkenness, would not be sufficient to bring him within the sphere of this definition; nor, on the other hand, need he be constantly drunk every day or week in a year.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pollon v. State

3. ““the duty of every grand jury to investigate and make diligent inquiry concerning any alleged misconduct or ineompctoncy of any public officer in the county, which may be brought to their notice; and if, on such investigation and inquiry, they find that such officer, for any cause mentioned in this chapter, ought to be removed from office, they shall so report to the court, setting forth the facts, which report shall be entered on the minutes of the court.” Section 7124, Code 1907.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowen v. State Ex Rel. Chamberlain