People v. Witte’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably 225 Ill. 2d 52 - Mohanty v. St. John Heart Clinic, S.C. (2006), 138 W. Va. 660 - Vest v. Cobb (1953)
2 district · 39 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 Douglas v. Noble · Kettles v. People · People v. Kane
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all licenses and certificates heretofore legally issued by authority of law in this State permitting the holder thereof to practice medicine, or to treat human ailments in any other manner, or to practice midwifery, and valid and in full force and effect on the taking effect of this act, shall have the same force and effect and be subject to the same authority of the department to revoke or suspend them as licenses issued under this act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The provisions of this act shall not be so construed as to discriminate against any system or method of treating human ailments, or against any medical college, or any professional school, college or institution teaching any system or method of treating human ailments, on account of any such system or method which may be taught or emphasized in such medical college, or in such professional school, college or institution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The right of a citizen to practice medicine is subject to the paramount power of the state to impose such regulations, within the limitations of the Constitution, as may be required, to protect the people against ignorance, incapacity, deception or fraud in the practice of that profession. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Borah
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.