Ex parte Hayes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““ The fundamental principles which underlie and support legislation of this character were announced by this court in Ex parte Christensen, 85 Cal. 208 , and also received an exhaustive discussion by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Crowley v. Christensen, 137 U. S. 86 ; and upon the authority of those cases we hold that the ordinance under consideration here is a valid exercise of the power conferred by section 11 of article 11 of the constitution of this State upon counties, cities, and towns to make ‘ all such local police, sanitary, and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws.’ “It is claimed, however, by the counsel for the petitioner that the ordinance makes a discrimination against women in the matter of employment, and is therefore in conflict with section 18 of article 20 of the constitution of this State, which is in these words: “ ‘No person shall, on account of sex, be disqualified from entering upon or pursuing any lawful business, vocation, or profession.’ “ This section does not, in our opinion, operate as a limitation upon the power of the State or its municipalities to prescribe the conditions upon which the business of retailing intoxicating liquors shall be permitted to be carried on, or in regulating the manner in which such business shall be conducted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Case