279 So. 2d 839 - Reams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1995
3 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 Green v. State · 53 So. 2d 106 - Padgett v. State · Norris v. State · Snedeker v. Vernmar, Ltd. · 145 So. 2d 259 - Nations v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“...insofar as he prescribed a proper diet to cure or alleviate the specific medical problems he diagnosed, Reams “treated” the illnesses of his patients. We reject the argument that because the substances “prescribed” were vitamins or food rather than “medicines” as the word is generally used, Reams did not treat diseases in the medical sense. Reams v. State, 279 So. 2d 839, 842 (1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient’s illness or the determination of the nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms. Said to be little more than a guess enlightened by experience.”
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.