Holliday v. Peden’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2003
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Day v. National US Radiator Corporation · Anderson v. Somberg · 276 So. 2d 259 - McCann v. Baton Rouge General Hospital
Most-quoted passages
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“"The evidence shows that the hospital relies totally upon the manufacturer to supply defect free suturing needles. It was further shown that the needles come to the hospital in individually sealed packages which are not opened by any members of the hospital's surgical team until they are ready for use by the physician and that the hospital keeps a card file on which it is noted what preparations, instruments and supplies are requested for each type of operation. Whatever type and grade needle requested by the doctor is laid out for him. Once a needle has been used it is disposed of. Finally, it was established that the hospital has used this procedure for many years without requiring an inspection of the suturing needles by members of its surgical teams prior to their use, without incident. "We, therefore, hold that the hospital was not guilty of negligence in handling the suturing needle prior to its use by Dr. Peden."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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