Fields v. Legacy Health System’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.3d 943 · 2005
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Cousins v. Lockyer (2009), Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa International Service, Ass'n (2007)
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Washington v. Glucksberg · Boudreau v. Baughman · Gilligan v. Jamco Development Corp. · De Martinez v. Ashcroft
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court may answer questions of law certified to it by the Supreme Court of the United States, a Court of Appeals of the United States, a United States District Court, a panel of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Service or the highest appellate court or the intermediate appellate court of any other state, when requested by the certifying court if there are involved in any proceedings before it questions of law of this state which may be determinative of the cause then pending in the certifying court and as to which it appears to the certifying court there is no controlling precedent in the decisions of the Supreme Court and the intermediate appellate courts of this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Gibson“George Fields argues that the Oregon wrongful death statutes of limitations and repose violate equal protection because they impermissibly discriminate between claimants whose decedents happen to live for more than three years after discovering the injury causing the death and five years of sustaining the injury causing death, as in Laura’s case, and claimants whose decedents die within three years of discovering the injury causing death and five years of sustaining the injury causing death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deen v. Egleston“Although the distinction between statutes of limitations and statutes of repose is often blurred, statutes of limitations differ from statutes of repose because the former `bars plaintiff[s] from bringing an already accrued claim after a specified period of time,' whereas the latter `terminates a right of action after a specific time, even if the injury has not yet occurred.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Aljian
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.