Melville v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1946
16 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 Parks v. State · State ex rel. Burroughs v. Webster · Musgrave v. State · State v. Doerring · Ward v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In charging any person ... in an affidavit, information or indictment, with a violation of this law by practicing medicine . . . without a license, it shall be sufficient to charge that he did, upon a certain day and in a certain county, engage in the practice of medicine, he not having any license to so do, without averring any further or, more particular facts concerning the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacDonald v. State
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.