Petrocelli v. Gallison’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 286 · 1982
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Cook v. Hoppin (1986), Ricciardi v. Children's Hospital Medical Center (1987)
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc. · Meder v. Everest & Jennings, Inc. · Reed v. Order of United Commercial Travelers · Buckminster's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses, made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, if kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity, and if it was the regular practice of that business activity to make the memorandum, report, record or data compilation ... unless the source of information or the method or circumstances of preparation indicate lack of trustworthiness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in which [the declarant] is individually a regular participant.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[sjtatements made for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and describing ... past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment.”
2 later decisions 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.