Ritholz v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1960
10 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 · Semler v. Oregon State Board of Dental Examiners · Ritholz v. Arkansas State Board of Optometry · Commonwealth v. Ferris · Semler v. Oregon State Board of Dental Examiners
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This chapter is passed in the interests of public health, safety, and welfare and its provisions shall be liberally construed to carry out its objects and purposes.””
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.