People v. Snowberger’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2011
2 federal appellate · 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 People v. Roby · State v. Hartfiel · Merritt v. Village of Port Chester · Commonwealth v. Raymond · Commonwealth v. Warren
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, it is for the legislature to determine what laws and regulations are needed to protect the public health and secure the public comfort and safety. If it passes an act ostensibly for the public health, and thereby destroys or takes away the property of the citizen or interferes with his liberty, it is for the courts to determine whether it relates to and is appropriate to promote such public health.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An act to prohibit and prevent adulteration, fraud, and deception in the manufacture and sale of articles of food and drink.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grosvenor v. Duffy““The act may work hardship in many cases, but that question is one to be addressed to the legislature, and not to the courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.