State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2019
20 state decisions — followed in 12 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any police regulations that did not provide means for insuring the wholesomeness of milk thus brought into the city for sale and consumption would furnish very inadequate protection to the lives and health of the citizens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The ordinance has no extraterritorial operation, and there has been no attempt to give it any such effect. The only subject upon which it operates is the sale of milk within the city.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To determine whether it does or does not contain the germs of any contagious or infectious disease it is necessary to inspect the animals which produce it.”
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.