24 Cal. 3d 55 - Hackethal v. Weissbein’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably 31 Cal. 4th 709 - Hassan v. Mercy American River Hospital (2003), 7 Cal. 4th 634 - Moore v. Conliffe (1994)
4 federal appellate · 62 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 13 Cal. 3d 804 - Nga Li v. Yellow Cab Co. · 46 Cal. 2d 375 - Albertson v. Raboff · 17 Cal. 3d 465 - Westlake Community Hospital v. Superior Court · 19 Cal. 3d 802 - Anton v. San Antonio Community Hospital · 12 Cal. 3d 541 - Pinsker v. Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to any hospital, hospital medical staff, professional society, medical or dental school, professional licensing board ..., peer review committee, or underwriting committee ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`in any (1) legislative, or (2) judicial proceeding, or (3) in any other official proceeding authorized by law. ...'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In a communication, without malice, to a person interested therein, (1) by one who is also interested, ...”
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.