Hall v. Birchfield’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2010
4 federal appellate · 17 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 In Re King's Estate · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · Glover v. Texas General Indemnity Co. · Cavnar v. Quality Control Parking, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Wadley Hospital ... [was] negligent in the care and treatment of Kellie Lee Birchfield with respect to any of the following which was a proximate cause of her blindness? Answer “yes” or “no” to each item. A. As to adequate nursing services [[Image here]] F. As to charting_”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“damages to the filial relationship are compensable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reagan v. Vaughn
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.