Butcher v. Maybury’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 6 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The power of the state to require a license implies the power to revoke a license which has been improperly issued. Provision for the revocation of such licenses is made by the act of 1919, whose constitutionality is not-under attack. The statute in question merely, changes the procedure required for such purpose.” (Emphasis added).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Dickey · Roberts v. State Board of Embalmers & Funeral Directors

2. ““(1) Those who had completed a residence course of three entire sessions, of 36 weeks each, at a chartered drugless school, the entrance requirements of which are a high school education or its equivalent. “(2) Those who, prior to the passage of the act of 1919, had attended and received diplomas from chartered drugless schools, the entrance’ requirements of which were a common' school education or its equivalent, and who had practiced their profession for 2 years continuously in the state of Washington. “(3) Those who had been, for four years prior to the passage of the statute, engaged in the continuous practice of a drugless system mentioned in the act, 2 years of which practice must have been at one place in the state of Washington.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roberts v. State Board of Embalmers & Funeral Directors