Ex parte Shen’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1960
19 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 In re Sic · Wood v. City of Brooklyn · Ex parte Cheney
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'So in the action at bar, the legislature has simply prohibited the sale of opium and certain other poisons unless a certain record is kept. It has not directly authorized the sale of opium without the prescription of a physician; it has not legislated upon that subject at all except in providing that where a physician's prescription is presented, no other record need be kept. The city has gone further than the statute and provided that no opium shall be sold without a prescription. While the regulation is different from that of the state there is no conflict and therefore it is not in violation of the provision of the constitution quoted above.' [ 134 Cal.App.2d Supp. 898 ]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Villarino · Mann v. Scott
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.