Meistrell v. McPhail’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. “Defendant had a responsibility to protect the public from services by physicians who for any reason might be less than competent doctors. Hospitals must endeavor to secure the most competent and experienced staff for their patients. The hospital in admitting a physician or surgeon to its facilities extends a moral imprimatur to him in the eyes of the public.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Le Baud v. Frische · 2001 OK CIV APP 133 - Thornton v. Holdenville General Hospital

2. “At common law privileges were recognized as a means to balance the interests of a person protecting his reputation with certain interests of the defendant, a third person or the public. These interests were perceived to be of enough social importance to warrant some limitations to a plaintiff's right to recover for injury to his reputation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2001 OK CIV APP 133 - Thornton v. Holdenville General Hospital