In Re Wilkins’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably In Re the Revocation of the License of Polk (1982), 64 N.C. App. 67 - Little v. North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners (1983)
38 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 Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · United States v. Mazurie · Nash v. United States · United States v. Powell
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is reasonable to assume . . . that as one goes toward the outer edges of the concepts of ‘unprofessional,’ ‘dishonorable,’ or ‘professional and ethical standards,’ with reference to the practice of medicine, as in the practice of law or the other learned professions, he reaches an area in which there is no room for difference of opinion among the most honorable and respected practitioners. There is, we are satisfied, no sharply defined drop off point between ethical and professional . . . practice and that which is unethical and unprofessional. However, there is at and around the central core of these concepts much conduct which so clearly constitutes improper practice that few, if any, members of the profession would seriously claim to be unaware that such conduct is not consistent with these concepts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It would obviously be futile to attempt to catalog in a statute, or in an order of the Board conditionally revoking the license of a practitioner, every conceivable improper practice in which the licensee is forbidden to engage. Neither the Federal nor the State Constitution requires such a tedious exercise in futility in oi'der to save a disciplinary statute, or order, from attack on the ground of vagueness and overbreadth____ The test is whether a reasonably intelligent member of the profession would understand that the conduct in question is forbidden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The credibility of the witnesses and the resolution of conflicts in their testimony is for the Board, not a reviewing court, and the findings of the Board supported, as these findings are, by competent evidence, are conclusive upon judicial review of the Board’s order.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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