Bulala v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Davis ex rel. Davis v. Jellico Community Hospital Inc. (1990), 933 So. 2d 770 - McGee v. AC AND S, INC. (2006)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 80 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 Etheridge v. Medical Center Hospitals · Naccash v. Burger · Hughes v. Moore · McDougald v. Garber · Booth v. Robertson
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Estimates of damages based entirely upon statistics and assumptions are too remote and speculative ... [;][i]n order to form a reliable basis for calculation of lost future income or loss of earning capacity, such evidence must be grounded upon facts specific to the individual whose loss is being calculated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the father, of course, was not the [obstetrician's] `patient,' within the meaning of the Act”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“judgment may be entered as if [death] had not occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Centra Health, Inc. v. Mullins · Helen C. Boyd Roger E. Boyd Veronica Lynn Boyd, by Her Parents and Next Friends, Helen Boyd & Roger E. Boyd v. R.A. Bulala, M.D., Association of Trial Lawyers of America Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Distressed Parents Together Consumer Federation of America Medical Society of Virginia, Amici Curiae. Helen C. Boyd Roger E. Boyd Veronica Lynn Boyd, by Her Parents and Next Friends, Helen Boyd & Roger E. Boyd v. Commonwealth of Virginia R.A. Bulala, M.D.
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.