Prouty v. Heron’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 1991 · most notably Swisher v. Brown (1965), State Board of Technical Registration v. McDaniel (1958)
41 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 Field v. Clark · State Board of Dental Examiners v. Savelle · Sapero v. State Board of Medical Examiners · People v. Painless Parker Dentist · Chenoweth v. State Board of Medical Examiners
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“3. No applicant for registration as a professional engineer shall be entitled to take the examination unless: "(a) He is a graduate from an approved course in engineering of 4 years or more in a school or college approved by the board as of satisfactory standing, and has a specific record of an additional 4 years or more of active experience in engineering work of a character satisfactory to the board, and indicating that the applicant is competent to be placed in responsible charge of such work; or "(b) In view of the requirements contained in paragraph (a) of this subsection, he has a specific record of 8 years or more of active experience in engineering work of a character satisfactory to the board, and indicating that the applicant is competent to be placed in responsible charge of such work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pine v. Leavitt“A study of these provisions leads inescapably to the conclusion that upon the whole question of qualifications for registration of engineers, there has been an illegal delegation of legislative authority to the board.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pine v. Leavitt“the right to practice a profession, once legally granted, is within the rights protected by the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.