McHugh v. Audet’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1992
4 federal appellate · 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Leishman v. Associated Wholesale Electric Co. · Freid v. McGrath · Hodgson v. Bigelow · Vietti v. Wayne
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The physician must use such ordinary skill and diligence and apply the means and methods generally used by physicians and surgeons of ordinary skill and learning in the practice of the profession, i. e., in the same general line of practice in like cases to determine the nature of the ailment and to act upon his honest opinion and conclusions. Ward v. Garvin, 328 Pa. 395 , 195 A. 885 .” McHugh v. Audet, 72 F.Supp. 394, 399 [M.D.Pa., 1947]; Duckworth v. Bennett, 320 Pa. 47 , 181 A. 558 [1935].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(d) On Initiative of Court. Not later than 10 days after entry of judgment the court of its own initiative may order a new trial for any reason for which it might have granted a new trial on motion of a party, and in the order shall specify the grounds therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(b) Time for Motion. A motion for a new trial shall be served not later than 10 days after the entry of the judgment.””
1 later decision 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.