People v. Logan’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1949 · most notably Lee v. Delmont (1949), Selectmen of Topsfield v. State Racing Commission (1949)
4 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Bessette v. People · Williams v. People
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is argued that the requirement of-three years’ service as an apprentice or study in a barber school has no direct relation to the public health or safety, but is rather intended to restrict and discourage the public from engaging in this occupation. The intention is to restrict the public from engaging in this occupation to the extent that only those may do so who have learned the trade; know how to prepare, use, and care for the tools; know what sanitary precautions must be taken to avoid the risk of spreading disease; and are acquainted with the sanitary regulations which the board of examiners is authorized by section 11 to adopt. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The exercise of the police power for the regulation of any trade, occupation or calling can be justified only on the ground of necessity for the health, safety, welfare or comfort of society. (Bessette v. People, 193 Ill. 334 [ 62 N. E. 215 , 56 L. R. A. 558].) The trade of a barber brings him in direct contact with the persons of his patrons, and careless and unsanitary practices in his trade may induce diseases of the sldn. Sycosis (popularly known as barber’s itch) is a common form of disease of the face and scalp propagated by the use of infected razors and brushes. Other and more serious diseases may also be similarly spread. It cannot be said that the reasonable regulation of the trade of a barber has no relation to the health and safety of the public. Such regulation is therefore within the scope of the police power which the State inherently possesses to restrain and control the exercise of private rights in such manner as may be necessary and appropriate to promote the public health, safety and welfare. ’ ’”
1 later decision 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.