69 N.C. App. 638 - State v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
May 1990
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Mazurie · State v. . Baker · 58 N.C. App. 558 - State v. White
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine or surgery . . . who shall diagnose or attempt to diagnose, treat or attempt to treat, operate or attempt to operate on, or prescribe for or administer to, or profess to treat any human ailment, physical or mental, or any physical injury to or deformity of another person: [unless such activity falls within one of fourteen exceptions].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No person shall practice medicine or surgery, or any of the branches thereof, nor in any case prescribe for the cure of diseases unless he shall have been first licensed and registered so to do in the manner provided in this Article. . . . The person so practicing without license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. . . .”
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.