Douglas v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 165 · 1923
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 23 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 324 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Griswold v. State of Connecticut (1965), National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button (1963)
73 federal appellate · 23 district · 103 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Dent v. State of West Virginia · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · Augustus Reetz v. People of the State of Michigan · Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio
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 324 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"And a Legislature may, consistently with the federal Constitution, delegate to such board the function of determining these things, as well as the functions of determining whether the applicant complies with the detailed standard of fitness. Reetz v. [People of State of] Michigan, 188 U.S. 505 , 23 S.Ct. 390 , 47 L.Ed. 563 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In 1893 the legislature of Washington provided that only licensed persons should practice dentistry”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“vested the authority to license in a board of examiners, consisting of five practicing dentists”
2 later decisions 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.