In Re Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1941
1 district · 2 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The word ‘physician’ * * * is derived from the Greek word, ‘phusis’ —nature — ” and “in a restricted sense * * *" means one who administers medicine to cure diseases, but, in its proper sense, it has a broader signification, and means one, who by a knowledge of the nature and structure of the human system, and of the nature and properties of substances, cures the injuries and diseases to which it is subject, . * * * ” as “the word ‘physician’ * * * includes not only ‘doctors,’ who administer medicine and physic, but ‘surgeons’ who, by a knowledge of the nature and structure of the human system, are able to amputate an injured and diseased limb, or to extract a ball with skill and as much safety to life and as little pain as the case admits of.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waldo v. Poe
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.