Bragg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably State v. Smith (1911), 15 Ala. App. 367 - Fealy v. City of Birmingham (1916)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Dent v. State of West Virginia · Talkington v. Turner · Brooks v. State · Bell v. State · 37 Mo. App. 576 - Davidson v. Bohlman
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus it is made entirely clear both by definitions and history that the word 'medicine' has a technical meaning, is a technical art or science, and as a science the practitioners of it are not simply those who prescribe drugs or other medicinal substances as remedial agents, but that it is broad enough to include and does include all persons who diagnose diseases and prescribe or apply any therapeutic agent for its cure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Wideman“the legislative purpose [in these enactments] was to protect the public against charlatanism, ignorance and quackery”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Wideman
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.