Blass v. Weigel’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1977
5 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Screws v. United States · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Snowden v. Hughes
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“long line of decisions [that] have upheld the right of a state to regulate the practice of medicine and the allied professions; to designate, limit or restrict what shall constitute the practice of medicine and the allied sciences; to authorize an administrative agency to provide for the regulation of the practice of medicine and the allied sciences; and to enforce either the statutes of the state or regulations of the administrative agency, (pp. 779-80).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Tinney
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.