Guinn v. Light’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Harlan Sprague Dawley, Inc. v. Indiana Department of State Revenue (1992), Mary Alice Manley, and Gary Manley v. Ryan J. Sherer, M.D., and Sherer Family Medicine, P.C. (2013)
41 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 Chaffin v. Nicosia · Manns v. State of Indiana Department of Highways · Wright v. Gettinger · Doughty v. State Department of Public Welfare · Board of Medical Registration & Examination v. Turner
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some patients and their attorneys, of course, tender a complaint to the commissioner when they are uncertain whether a provider has qualified under the Act. We view this as prudent in light of the potential for misinformation conveyed over the telephone or through other informal means.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as provided in subsection (b) and in section 8.5 of this chapter, no action against a health care provider may be commenced in any court of this state before the claimant's proposed complaint has been presented to a medical review panel established pursuant to this chapter and an opinion is rendered by the panel. (emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'liln construing a statute, the court must consider the whole act and, if possible, effect must be given to every word phrase and clause therein.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.