DiAntonio v. Northampton-Accomack Memorial Hospital’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 287 · 1980
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Barwick v. Celotex Corp. (1984), 36 Cal. 3d 359 - American Bank & Trust Co. v. Community Hospital (1984)
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · Meeker v. Lehigh Valley Railroad · Attorney General v. Johnson · 63 Ill. 2d 313 - Wright v. Central Du Page Hospital Ass'n
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there are circumstances in which a question of admissibility of evidence is so intertwined with a state substantive rule that the state rule ... will be followed in order to give full effect to the state's substantive policy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“intimately related to [Nevada]'s alteration of the substantive cause of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The elimination of frivolous claims and the provision and promotion of mediation and settlement provide a rational basis for the legislation. The different treatment of medical malpractice plaintiffs from other tort plaintiffs is not a denial of equal protection, when the special problems posed by soaring insurance costs are considered.”
1 later decision 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.