O'Brien v. Stover’s Empirical Analysis
443 F.2d 1013 · 1971
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Wilkinson v. Vesey (1972), Scafidi v. Seiler (1990)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Williamson v. Gilmer · McSparran v. Weist · Hicks v. United States · Solomon Dehydrating Company, Incorporated v. Clarence R. Guyton, Central Greyhound Lines, Incorporated, and the Greyhound Corporation
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is an overall 30 per cent survival rate from this type of cancer and that chance is considerably improved the earlier the cancer is discovered”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“life would have been saved or at least prolonged and his pain lessened had he received early treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“chances for survival, or at least living longer and more comfortably”
1 later decision 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.