Orrell v. BF Goodrich’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
March 1999
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Whitener v. South Central Solid Waste Authority · LaBarge v. Zebco · Wheat v. Heritage Manor
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be performed when a patient has respiratory complaints that are of greater severity than the observed spirometry results would indicate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The decision as to whether such complaints are actually inconsistent or of greater severity than the more objective physiologic test results, so that the DCO test should be performed, under the 1984 Guides are within an area of medical expertise and are not generally subject to second guessing by a court. For all of the above reasons we perceive no error in [the doctor's] failure to perform a DCO test. [28]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. BF Goodrich“The D[co] measures the amount of CO which diffuses across the alveolar-capillary membrane in a specified amount of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. BF Goodrich
How this case has been treated — in progress
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