Hahn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Lessard v. State (1986), Paravecchio v. Memorial Hospital of Laramie County (1987)
2 district · 23 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 United States v. Ohio Power Co. · Smith v. Westchester County Bar Ass'n · National Labor Relations Board v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · State v. Smith · Arnold v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [l]t would seem to be quite clear, and the authorities hold, that naturopa-thy is simply one of the methods of practicing medicine. For instance, it is stated in People v. Joknerson, Co.Ct., 49 N.Y. S.2d 190,196,197, appeal dismissed, App. Div., 51 N.Y.S.2d 221 , as follows: “ ‘It has always been considered that the practice of medicine means and includes the practice of any of the so-called healing arts. The Legislature, in enacting a broad and comprehensive statute, intended thereby to protect the members of the public from untrained, unskilled and inefficient practitioners in any healing art. It is immaterial what method is used to effect a cure, or to relieve a person of pain. The true test is whether or not an attempt has been made by some manner or means to effect such cure or to relieve a person from some pain or ailment or physical condition complained of.’ [[Image here]] “It follows of course, and our statute is clear, that the practice of naturopathy cannot, as counsel for defendant contends it should, be regarded as a separate and distinct profession like that of dentistry for instance, nor can we see any good reason why the legislature may not for the benefit of society require that those who practice the healing art should know and keep up with the improvements and advanced learning in that art. The health and well-being of the members of society is too important to justify the failure to make requirements commensurate with the advancement of civilization”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.