State v. Donaldson’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Noel v. People (1900), Rippe v. Becker (1894)
38 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the term 'patent and proprietary medicines' is to be understood in a strict and technical sense, as limited to those in the preparation of which there is an exclusive right of property in some proprietor ... or whether it is used in a popular and more extended sense, as including all preparations prepared and sold throughout the country in original packages, as patent medicines are.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Heron“or from dealing in and selling of patent or proprietary medicines.”
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.