Eubanks v. Ferrier’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Hollowell v. Jove (1981), Shelton v. Morehead Memorial Hospital (1986)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · 40 Cal. App. 3d 623 - Matchett v. Superior Court · Tucson Medical Center, Incorporated v. Misevch · Oviatt v. Archbishop Bergan Mercy 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proceedings and records of medical review committees shall not be subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action against a provider of professional health services arising out of the matters which are the subject of evaluation and review by such committee. . . . 3”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Courts considering the question have held that the enactment of such statutes represents a proper legislative choice between the competing public concerns of fostering medical staff candor, on the one hand, and impairing medical malpractice plaintiffs' access to evidence, on the other hand.”
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.