Runyan v. Goodrum’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably Christie v. Callahan (1941), Thomas v. Sessions (1991)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Singer Manuf'G Co v. Rahn · Arkansas Midland Railroad v. Pearson · Sweeney v. Erving · Longan v. Weltmer · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Owens
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the x-ray specialist ... like the physician and surgeon, unless he expressly contracts to produce certain results, has the right to, and must at all times, act according to his independent judgment and discretion in the exercise of his skill and learning in the treatment of human diseases. The very nature of his profession and the character of his contract of employment involves this right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A physician can not be regarded as an agent or servant in the usual sense of the term, since he is not and necessarily can not be directed in the diagnosing of diseases and injuries and prescribing treatment therefor, his office being to exercise his best skill and judgment in such matters, without control from those by whom he is called or his fees paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.