Legal Opinion
Butler v. Perry
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 6, 1916No. 182PublishedCited by 135 opinions
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of a statute of Georgia requiring able-bodied men to do a certain amount of work on public roads, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
Chapter 6537, Laws of Florida (Acts of 1913, pp. 469, 474, 475), provides:
“Sec. 10. Every able-bodied male person over the age of twenty-one years, and under the.age of forty-five years, residing in said county for thirty days of more continuously next prior to the date of making of the list by the Board of County Commissioners, or the date of the summons or notice to work, shall be subject, liable and required to work on the roads and bridges of the several counties for six days of not less than ten hours each in each year, when summoned so to do, as herein provided; that such persons so…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Mugler v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Butchers' Benevolent Ass'n v. Crescent City Live-Stock Landing & Slaughter-House Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Jacobson v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Barbier v. ConnollySupreme Court of the United States · 1884
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3Cited by135 opinions
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- United States v. KozminskiSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Victor Zavala v. Wal Mart Stores IncCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2012
- Bayh v. SonnenburgIndiana Supreme Court · 1991
- David v. Vesta Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1965
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