State ex rel. Burroughs v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 1959 · most notably Augustus Reetz v. People of the State of Michigan (1903), Meffert v. State Board of Medical Registration & Examination (1903)
44 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 Dent v. State of West Virginia · Smith v. State of Alabama · People Ex Rel. Nechamcus v. Warden of the City Prison · State v. Carey · Board of Commissioners of Huntington Co. v. Heaston
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.
“`Statutes similar to the one under consideration, denying to all physicians in the state, lawfully engaged in practice, the right to continue such practice, until they conform to the requirements of the statute, and restricting the practice of medicine to persons who are able to demonstrate their qualifications have been held constitutional as a proper exercise of the police power of the state in nearly every state of the union and in the Supreme Court of the United States. (Cases cited.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““These are, however, questions for the legislature ; and, so long as the act is not clearly in violation of any provision of the constitution, it cannot be held invalid. The legislature has judged that the safety of the public health requires the guards that are placed around the practice of medicine by this law; and, notwithstanding the questions made by counsel, we are unable to see that the act is not a valid exercise of the police power of the State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Similar statutes have been sustained for the regulation of the practice of dentistry. (Cases cited.)”
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.