State v. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 7 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * But where the proper construction of a statute indicates that it applies to a single act, the dictionary definition of the word as meaning a continued and habitual performance of acts cannot be taken into account. “It has been held with reference to physicians and surgeons that practicing medicine or surgery does not mean continued or habitual professional acts, but, as the object of a restrictive statute is a protection of the public, and as a member of the public is endangered by one act of an unqualified practitioner, so a single act may be practicing, * * ⅜ The prime object of this law regulating the practice of embalming is the protection of the public, * * *. The person performing the act or practice is the person whom the statute seeks to regulate. And a single act of embalming is as much a violation of the law as repeated acts of practice. (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Lindsey