Bing v. Thunig’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 217 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 280 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 33 Ill. 2d 326 - Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital (1965), State v. Harper (Slip Opinion) (2020)
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 217 state decisions — followed in 34 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.
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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 280 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Very few, if any, voluntary hospitals reach the end of any year without a deficit which has to he made up by its board of directors or by other charitable gifts. This is especially so of small hospitals. In my judgment, the doctrine of the Schloendorff case has justified itself over the years and has enabled voluntary hospitals to survive. That is particularly so in small communities as distinguished from larger cities. We need both the large and small voluntary hospital. The alternative is public hospitals supported by county or State or stock company hospitals operating as businesses organized for profit.””
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.