Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2016
8 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 State v. Snowden · Hayden v. State · Word v. State · State v. Tucker
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question is further presented as to whether the appellant's treatment of John Minor by the injection of vitamins under all of the facts and circumstances of the case brought him within the statutory definition of practicing medicine. In other words, whether in so treating John Minor by injecting vitamins, the appellant was for compensation suggesting, recommending, prescribing, or directing for the use of the patient a drug, medicine, appliance, or other agency for the cure, relief or palliation of any ailment or disease of the body of the patient. In determining this question, we adopt that interpretation of the statute which is most favorable to the appellant and apply the rule of ejusdem generis to the words "or other agency," and construe the words to mean other agency akin to or of like character with a drug or medicine. 41 Am.Jur., Physicians and Surgeons, Sec. 27, p. 157. Assuming as true the testimony of the appellant that he prescribed and administered vitamins in order to correct a vitamin deficiency, it necessarily follows that he prescribed and administered vitamins as an agency akin to medicine to correct a disorder or ailment in the human body which interfered with normal animal growth and was likely to produce disease. ( 229 Miss. at 766 , 92 So.2d at 222 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The fact that the substance employed as a remedial agent may have value as a food, and a tendency to build up and restore wasted or diseased tissue, will not deprive it of its character as a `medicine' if it is administered and employed for that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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