State v. Huff’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1972
5 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 The Steamboat Clipper v. Logan · Sun Insurance Office v. Western Woolen-mill Co. · State v. Wilson · State v. Klauer · Cook v. People
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.
““It would defeat the manifest purpose of the law to hold that, under these provisions, a defendant, charged and proved to have received money for recommending a certain substance as a cure for disease, might exculpate himself by showing that the substance he recommendéd was a domestic medicine, in the sense that it was a well-known remedy, the effect of which was a matter of common knowledge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Yee Foo Lun““Such substances as are commonly kept by nonprofessional persons in their own homes for use as remedies in the absence of a physician, being necessarily substances the effect of which is a matter of general knowledge, so that no special training is required for their safe administration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Yee Foo Lun
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.