Page v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Doe v. Webster (1979), Prichard v. Battle (1941)
5 federal appellate · 35 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 Ex parte Garland · Cummings v. The State of Missouri · Wall · Hawker v. People of New York · Boyd v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When a full and absolute pardon is granted, it exempts the individual upon which it is bestowed from the punishment which the law inflicts for the crime which he has committed. The crime is forgiven and remitted, and the individual is relieved from all of its legal consequences. The effect of a full pardon is to make the offender a new man. While a pardon has generally been regarded as blotting out the existence of guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offense, it does not so operate for all purposes and as the very essence of a pardon is forgiveness or remission of penalty, a pardon implies guilt; it does not obliterate the fact of the commission of the crime and the conviction thereof; it does not wash out the moral stain; as has been tersely said; it involves forgiveness and not forgetfulness."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as a condition to the right to practice medicine in Florida, 192 So. at 208, and quoted language from Hawker v. New York, 170 U.S. 189 , 18 S.Ct. 573, 42 L.Ed. 1002 (1898), that such legislation is not to be regarded as a mere imposition of additional penalty, but as prescribing the qualifications for the duties to be discharged and the position to be filled, 192 So. at 210. On petition for rehearing, id. at 211, the court found no evidence of legislative intent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to eliminate entirely the absence of good moral character as a ground for revoking a license to practice medicine”
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.