Wormsen v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1972
2 district · 6 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan · Matter of Application of Jacobs · Ives v. South Buffalo Railway Co. · Smith v. State of Texas
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * In the present case the relator's business is in no way injurious to the morals, the health, or even the convenience of the community, provided only he has the requisite knowledge upon the subjects prescribed by the legislature to practice his calling without endangering the health of his patrons."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * Classification as between citizens and aliens is permissible, but the classification must have some reasonable basis in the welfare of the community.”
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.