State v. . Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably Upchurch v. Hudson Funeral Home, Inc. (1965), 36 Wash. 2d 482 - Kelly v. Carroll (1950)
2 district · 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ‘drug’ is any substance used as a medicine or in the composition of medicines for internal or external use, and a ‘medicine’ is any substance or preparation used in treating disease. [Citing cases and authorities.] Hence, the term ‘drugs’ embraces patent or proprietary remedies possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties sold and used for medicines. This is true irrespective of whether such remedies contain poisonous ingredients, or whether they may be purchased without any direction from a physician, or whether they can be obtained at retail stores generally. Calling drugs domestic or family remedies does not rob them of their character as medicines. . . . The lexicographers declare that a laxative is a medicine. . . . The test is whether it is administered or employed as a medicine.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is undoubtedly true, as the accused contends, that ‘the defendant cannot be convicted in this case for doing as an osteopathic physician what he would have a perfect legal right to do as a private citizen,’ and that a private citizen can suggest to friends the advisability of taking some medicine without running afoul of the law. But the evidence in this case does not intimate that the accused confined himself to recommending the use of some remedy by some acquaintances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“assume that the Legislature comprehended the import of the words it employed.”
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.