State v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Cromwell v. Jackson (1947), State v. Prince (1948)
32 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Trustees of the Village of Saratoga Springs v. Saratoga Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. · Wyeth v. Board of Health of Cambridge · State v. Benzinger · Campau v. City of Detroit
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Power and authority exist in the Legislature to license and regulate certain vocations notwithstanding provisions of the Federal and State Constitutions, but such power and authority are dependent upon a reasonable necessity for its exercise to protect the health, morals or general welfare of the State. The care of dead human bodies and the disposition of them by burial or otherwise is so closely related to the health and general welfare of a community that the business of caring for and disposing of such bodies may be regulated by license and special regulations under the general police power of the State. The danger that may arise from the body of a person who has died from some infectious, contagious and communicable disease or otherwise, is to some extent obviated by the sanitary regulations of local boards of health; but such regulations are quite inadequate to protect the health and general welfare of a community unless the person who comes into immediate contact with the dead body and upon whose care and skill the public are principally dependent in preventing the spread of infection or contagion and protecting the health, good order and general welfare of a community, is selected with special reference to his skill, knowledge and experience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keller v. State“Where a repeal of a prior law is inserted in an Act in order to secure the unobstructed operation of such act, and the repealing law is itself held to be void, the provisions for the repeal of the prior law will fall with it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State“the State Board of Undertakers of Maryland,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keller v. State
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.