Osh Oshd General Motors Corporation v. Director of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Department of Health Education and Welfare’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 163 · 1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Hancock v. Dodson (1992), In re Subpoena Served upon Zuniga (1983)
12 federal appellate · 5 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 Whalen v. Roe · Heathman v. United States District Court · United States v. Viner · United States Ex Rel. United Against Racism, Discrimination and Social Injustice v. Byrne
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he common law did not recognize a physician-patient privilege at all. Neither has Congress codified the concept in a federal statute. A decision in this case based on considerations of the physician-patient relationship would, in effect, expand the scope of the ‘federal common law.’ This we decline to do.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the constitutional rights of the individuals involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“inspections and investigations under this chapter”
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.