Anita T. Owens v. Raymond L. White’s Empirical Analysis
380 F.2d 310 · 1967
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Robinson v. Weaver (1977), Gaines v. Haughton (1981)
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & WareHouse Co. · Messenger v. Anderson · Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Field · Propper v. Clark · Fernandi v. Strully
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a)nalysis by a district judge of the law of the state in which he sits . . . is entitled to great weight . . . That determination 'will be accepted on review unless shown to be clearly wrong.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even in its present stage of advanced development, medicine is not an exact science. Symptoms and diseases thought at one time, even recently, to fall into one category are later discovered, through the evolution of the science, to fall into another. If the trier of fact should be convinced, upon the basis of new knowledge, that a mistaken diagnosis was made, the defendant’s task of establishing that his conduct did not fall below the standard of care which prevailed in his profession at the time and place of the alleged error could prove insurmountable in the event of sufficient lapse of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[t]he duty of a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction, when the state tribunals have not supplied an answer to the direct problem involved, is to apply the rule which it believes would be applied by the highest court of the state if the specific question should be presented to it.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.