Boggs v. Werner’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 1994 · most notably Wm. Penn Parking Garage, Inc. v. City of Pittsburgh (1975), Harris-Walsh, Inc. v. Dickson City Borough (1966)
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 Shortz v. Farrell · Childs v. Smeltzer · Boyd v. Smith · Harris v. State Board of Optometrical Examiners · Neill v. Gimbel Bros., Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . In the case last cited, Mr. Justice Jones said for the court at p. 227: ‘Equity’s jurisdiction under the Act of June 16, 1836, P. L. 784, 17 PS §41, as amended, to restrain the Secretary of Welfare for the Commonwealth from condoning and encouraging the practice of medicine by persons not licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1911, as in the instant case, is neither questioned nor open to question. The jurisdiction is invokable on the complaint of a duly licensed member of the profession unlawfully so invaded: Harris v. State Board of Optometrical Examiners, 287 Pa. 531, 534 , 135 A. 237 . And, that is so notwithstanding a penal remedy is provided for the redress of the offense: . . .’ No valid reason can be found for treating the dental profession differently from those enumerated above.””
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.