Spencer v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2006
6 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 Importsales, Inc. v. Lindeman · Kramer v. Freeman · Loew's, Incorporated v. Don George, Inc. · American Heating & Plumbing Co. v. West End Country Club · Reine v. Reine
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It should be observed, however, that should professional fees continue to increase and become a burden to the public, governmental regulation will be urged as a correction, even though many consider socialized medicine detrimental to our system of free enterprise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Our courts have never hesitated to reduce such charges where the proof disclosed they were unreasonable and excessive.”
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.