Grainger v. Still’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 1985 · most notably Wheatley Ex Rel. Wheatley v. Heideman (1960), 325 Pa. Super. 212 - Furey v. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (1984)
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Nelson v. Harrington · Longan v. Weltmer · Martin v. Walter Courtney · Force v. Gregory · Wheeler v. Bowles
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it be true that osteopaths teach the same textbooks as other schools of medicine, then there can be no reason why a physician of any other school is not a competent witness to express an opinion as to the correctness of the diagnosis and treatment of hip disease by an osteopath, because pro hac vice the rules and practices of both are the same.” (Grainger v. Still, 187 Mo. 197, 224 , 85 S. W. 1114 , 70 L. R. A. 49.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yard v. Gibbons
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.