Shannon v. McNulty’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 191 Ill. 2d 278 - Jones v. Chicago HMO Ltd. of Illinois (2000), Scampone v. Highland Park Care Center, LLC (2012)
29 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 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Razumic · Thompson v. Nason Hospital · 413 Pa. Super. 128 - McClellan v. Health Maintenance Organization · Welsh v. Bulger · 371 Pa. Super. 368 - Storm v. Golden
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ChoiceCare] is a professional corporation comprised of doctors with many specialties including internal medicine, family medicine and occupational medicine. [Suburban General] contracted with ChoiceCare to provide medical care to patients admitted into the Rehabilitation Unit. The Rehabilitation Unit is administratively separate from the other units at [Suburban General], Choice-Care oversaw and ran the Rehabilitation Unit at [Suburban General], assuming responsibility for the coordination and management of all patients. A patient admitted to the Rehabilitation Unit was assigned to a ChoiceCare physician who served as that patient’s attending physician and who saw and coordinated the patient’s care. ChoiceCare physicians establish a rehab program setting forth the various physical therapy regimens. They impanel a team of therapists to carry out the special therapies, and retain a nutritionist to participate in the patient’s care. It is their responsibility to make sure that the other physicians are consulted and become involved in medical treatment as needed. Choice-Care arranged and coordinated the total health care for its patients in the Rehabilitation Unit. ChoiceCare was responsible for all of the medical care of patients in the Rehab Unit. There was testimony from physicians affiliated with ChoiceCare that the corporation had all the duties of a hospital under [Thomp son] except the duty to use reasonable care in the maintenance of safe and adequate facilities and equi”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[A compulsory nonsuit] is proper only if the fact-finder, viewing all of the evidence in favor of the plaintiff could not reasonably conclude that the essential elements of a cause of action have been established. When a nonsuit is entered, the lack of evidence to sustain the action must be so clear that it admits no room for fair and reasonable disagreement. A compulsory nonsuit can only be granted in cases where it is clear that a cause of action has not been established and the plaintiff must be given the benefit of all favorable evidence along with all reasonable inferences of fact arising from the evidence, resolving any conflict in favor of the plaintiff. The fact-finder, however, cannot be permitted to reach a decision on the basis of speculation or conjecture.” Shannon v. McNulty, 718 A.2d 828, 829-30 (Pa. Super. 1998). See also, Smith v. Grab, 705 A.2d 894 (Pa. Super. 1997); Joyce v. Boulevard Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Center, 694 A.2d 648 (Pa. Super. 1997); Bridle v. West Allegheny Hospital, 406 Pa. Super. 572 , 594 A.2d 766 (1991).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Where the HMO is providing health care services rather than merely providing money to pay for services their conduct should be subject to scrutiny. We see no reason why the duties applicable to hospitals should not be equally applied to an HMO when that HMO is performing the same or similar functions as a hospital. When a benefits provider, be it an insurer or a managed care organization, interjects itself into the rendering of medical decisions affecting a subscriber's care it must do so in a medically reasonable manner. Here, HealthAmerica provided a phone service for emergent care staffed by triage nurses. Hence, it was under a duty to oversee that the dispensing of advice by those nurses would be performed in a medically reasonable manner. Accordingly, we now make explicit that which was implicit in McClellan [v. Health Maintenance Organization of Pennsylvania, 413 Pa.Super. 128 , 604 A.2d 1053 (1992)] and find that HMOs may, under the right circumstances, be held corporately liable." (Emphasis added.) Shannon, 718 A.2d at 835-36 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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