Whitt v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2018
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 397 So. 2d 791 - Derouen v. Kolb · Merrell v. STATE THROUGH DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT · Keneker v. Keneker · 415 So. 2d 965 - Landry v. Martinez
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A panelist or the attorney shall disclose in writing to the parties prior to the hearing any employment relationship or financial relationship with the claimant, the health care provider against whom a claim is asserted, or any other relationship that might give rise to a conflict of interest for the panelists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“La.R.S. 40:1299.47(C)(7) only mandates that these relationships [of potential conflict] be disclosed in writing to the parties. It does not specify automatic disqualification from service on the panel. Rather this determination is left to the discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sole duty of the panel is to express its expert opinion(s) ..., and the findings of the medical review panel is not binding on the litigants.”
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.