Harrison v. Schrader’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 79 Ill. 2d 295 - Anderson v. Wagner (1979), Kochins v. Linden-Alimak, Inc. (1986)
8 federal appellate · 63 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Dandridge v. Williams · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden of showing that a classification is unreasonable and arbitrary is placed upon the individual challenging the statute; and if any state of facts can reasonably be conceived to justify the classification or if the reasonableness of the class is fairly debatable, the statute must be upheld. Swain v. State, 527 S.W.2d 119 (Tenn.1975).” Harrison v. Schrader, 569 S.W.2d 822, 826 (Tenn.1978).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a)(1) The statute of limitations in malpractice actions shall be (1) year as set forth in § 28-3-104. (2) In the event the alleged injury is not discovered within the said one (1) year period, the period of limitation shall be one (1) year from the date of such discovery. (3) In no event shall any such [medical malpractice] action be brought more than three (3) years after the date on which the negligent act or omission occurred except where there is fraudulent concealment on the part of the defendant in which case the action shall be commenced within one (1) year after discovery that the cause of action exists.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`extended [the] period during which a physician could be subject to potential liability.'”
5 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.