Donavant v. Hudspeth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Cheape v. Town of Chapel Hill (1987), 90 N.C. App. 423 - In Re Parker (1988)
26 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 Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · State v. Bullard · State v. Vestal · State v. Smith · Dufour v. Mississippi
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Barbara E. Woolley, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: 1. That your affiant is the Director of Medical Record Services, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. 2. That on 3rd day of March, 1995, your affiant received a subpoena to produce medical records, captioned Constance Chamberlain W03 341. 3. That in lieu of a personal appearance to produce the medical records, your affiant will send the medical records by registered mail. 4. That your affiant certifies that the attached medical records are the ones so requested in the subpoena and are authentic copies. 5. That your affiant certifies that the attached medical records are true and correct copies, made in regular course of business at or near the time of the acts, conditions or events recorded. 6. That your affiant certifies to the best of [her] knowledge that the medical records were made by persons having knowledge of the information set forth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when an offer of evidence is made, some of which is admissible and some of which is inadmissible, it is not the responsibility of the trial judge to separate the admissible from the inadmissible evidence, and in the absence of an appropriately-limited offer by the proponent of the evidence, the trial judge's ruling excluding the evidence will be upheld on appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial judge determines on voir dire that the source of the physician’s statement is in fact unreliable, he may exclude the statement as evidence for any purpose. If the opinion of the physician testifying as an expert is based solely on the unreliable statement, the physician should not be allowed to state the opinion. . ..”
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.