State v. Bonham’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions

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

1. ““When tested by the foregoing definitions, it is manifest that the practice of osteopathy, as it was originally understood and as it was understood at the time of the enactment of our medical act, did not sanction the internal administration of medicines or the surgical use of the knife as a means for curing diseases. *■"' * * A perusal of the successive catalogues of its schools will show that their teachings are gradually being expanded, and that the more modern of them now teach in some degree much that is taught in the older schools of medicine. The parent school has been more marked in this respect than perhaps any of them. It now teaches that in ■‘child birth lacerations/ in ‘certain types of congenital deformities, certain kinds of tumors, etc., surgery must step in/ and that surgery must be resorted to for the removal of tissues so badly diseased or degenerated that regeneration is impossible by the process of adjustment. But this advance is modem. It was not in vogue even so late as 1909, the time of the enactment of our medical act.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Waldo v. Poe · 95 Wash. 2d 257 - Woodson v. State

2. ““The statute makes it plain, we think, that its framers regarded the'practice of medicine and surgery and the practice of osteopathy as separate and distinct methods of treating the sick and afflicted, and intended to confine the practitioners of each to the particular system he professed to practice; in other words, to the system in which he had been educated.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rust · 32 Wash. 2d 681 - State v. Houck

3. “A system of treating diseases without drugs, propounded by Dr. A. T. Still in 1874. It is based on the belief that disease is caused by some part of the human mechanism being out of proper adjustment, as in the case of a misplaced bone, cartilage or ligament, adhesions or contractions of muscle, etc., resulting in unnatural pressure on or obstruction to nerves, blood, or lymph. Osteopathy, through the agency or use of the bones (especially the long ones which are employed as levers), seeks to adjust correctly the misplaced parts by manipulation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 22 Wash. App. 499 - Woodson v. State