Green v. Blanchard’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 1977 · most notably Brinkley v. Hassig (1936), 66 Cal. App. 157 - Goldsmith v. Board of Education of Sacramento City High School District (1924)
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 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 United States v. Reese · American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty · Hall v. Bledsoe · State ex rel. Powell v. State Medical Examining Board · Ex parte Jackson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It (the language of the statute) does not advise the dentist in advance of what act or acts may be in violation of its provisions. Subdivision 2 and the words, ‘deceiving or defrauding the public,’ have no common-law definition. They are not defined in the statute and have no generally well-defined meaning in the decisions of courts. Under the statute, a dentist might do an’ act neither violating moral law nor involving moral turpitude and which he regarded as strictly proper, and still his aets might;, in the opinion of the board, be such as were calculated to deceive or defraud the public. Different standards might be established by different boards. It is well known that the different schools of medicine and even of dentistry have widely divergent views as to the treatment of certain diseases. If must be remembered that the statute doesn’t prohibit advertising, however unprofessional or unethical we might consider that to be. It only prohibits advertising with the view of ‘deceiving or defrauding the public or in any way that would tend to deceive the public.’ So the members of one school of medicine or dentistry might advocate a certain treatment and in good faith advertise it to the public which might be condemned by members of another school as calculated to deceive and defraud the public. The members of the profession are usually men of intelligence and good citizens. We do hot believe that they would be guilty of such a multiplicity of wrongful acts that their conduc”
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.