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730 F. Supp. 21 - Munn v. Algee’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
August 2013
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Batson v. Kentucky · Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. · United States v. Erwin · Alverez v. J. Ray McDermott & Co.

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that even if it found that Mrs. Munn's death was avoidable and that her refusal of the blood transfusion was unreasonable, it could still award the plaintiff wrongful death damages, if it further found that the defendant's negligence was a contributing cause of Mrs. Munn's death.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “determine the percentage of wrongful death damages attributable to Elaine Munn's refusal to accept the transfusions,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “to place this percentage at 0%, 100%, or any percentage in between.”
    2 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.