Wilk Dc v. American Medical Association’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably 611 F. Supp. 1223 - In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation (1985), Wilson v. Williams (1996)
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · United Mine Workers v. Pennington
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven if we should discern error in one or more instructions, we will not reverse a judgment--especially after [a lengthy] trial--unless we are persuaded the jury's understanding of the issue was seriously affected, to the prejudice of the [complaining party].”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] canon of medical ethics purporting, surely not frivolously, to address the importance of scientific method gives rise to questions of sufficient delicacy and novelty at least to escape per se treatment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dr. Chester A. Wilk, D.C., Dr. James W. Bryden, D.C., Dr. Patricia B. Arthur, D.C., and Dr. Michael D. Pedigo, D.C., Cross-Appellants v. American Medical Association, Cross-Appellee. Dr. Chester A. Wilk, D.C., Dr. James W. Bryden, D.C., Dr. Patricia B. Arthur, D.C., and Dr. Michael B. Pedigo, D.C., Plaintiffs-Cross-Appellants v. American Medical Association, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, American College of Physicians and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Defendants-Cross-Appellees · 617 F. Supp. 264 - Chiropractic Cooperative Ass'n v. American Medical Ass'n“[a] physician should practice a method of healing founded on a scientific basis; and he should not voluntarily professionally associate with anyone who violates this principle.”
3 later decisions 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.