State ex rel. Williams v. Purl’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably State Board of Dental Examiners v. Savelle (1932), Sapero v. State Board of Medical Examiners (1932)
28 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 · Hawker v. People of New York · Augustus Reetz v. People of the State of Michigan · Meffert v. State Board of Medical Registration & Examination · State ex rel. Powell v. State Medical Examining Board
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to revoke and annul . . . license or registration for fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in the practice of dentistry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`teeth made without bridges or plates' whereas such work was unknown to dentistry;”
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.