Davis v. Beeler’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Ashby (1991), Watts v. Burkhart (1988)
3 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Dent v. State of West Virginia · Hadacheck v. Sebastian
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““63-609. Practice of naturopathy prohibited. — It shall be unlawful for any person to practice naturo-pathy in this state. Naturopathy means nature cure or health by natural methods and is defined as the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human injuries, ailments, and disease by the use of such physical forces, as air, light, water, vibration, heat, electricity, hydrotherapy, psychotherapy, dietetics, or massage, and the administration of botanical and biological drugs. Any violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor and shall be punishable accordingly. This section shall not apply to persons who comply with the regulatory laws of the state with respect to the practice of the various healing arts.””
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.