Thompson v. Lillehei’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1994
3 federal appellate · 8 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 Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Runyan v. Goodrum · Schad v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. · 127 Ind. App. 565 - Huber v. Protestant Deaconess Hospital, Etc. · Wallstedt v. Swedish Hospital
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . There was no showing that Lillehei appointed or employed Dr. X or others in the operating room, or that he had any supervision or control over Dr. X or others at the donor’s table, or that he had any knowledge of any negligent act being taken by others. Absent this, the doctrine of ‘respondeat superior' is inapplicable and Lillehei has no vicarious responsibility . . .” (pp. 720, 721.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.