Gala v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2010
14 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 Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Jones · Brannan v. Lankenau Hospital · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Fishbone · Duckworth v. Bennett · Riesberg v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such a requirement would recognize that a school of thought as it is used in the two schools doctrine is more than a spontaneous agreement among an ad hoc group of colleagues. Rather, it is by definition a more formal mode of practice, system or discipline with its own theoretical basis, medical principles, and protocol.... “Further, in order to be a ‘school,’ the approach, technique, treatment or procedure must be communicated to others who adopt and follow those methods. The shared teachings only become a school when the followers are numerous and the protocol is established, understood, and embraced at least among the defined group of disciples. As such, a considerable number of reputable and respected practitioners has long been the requirement in Pennsylvania in order to constitute a school. . . . The unadopted beliefs, writings and teachings of one individual provide inadequate factual support for a school of thought.... “Unless and until other reputable and respected colleagues adopt the advocated approach, it is only a theory and not a ‘school.’ ” 47”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.