Davidson v. Light’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2010
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Bredice v. Doctors Hospital, Inc. · Local 272, International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board · Bernardi v. Community Hospital Association · Gillman v. United States · Bredice v. Doctors Hospital, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The committee involved here does not evaluate hospital policy generally, but presumably is called upon only when an infection problem exists, as was the case here. At such times, the source of an infection is investigated and activity is undertaken to eradicate the infection. This role is not such as to be susceptible to inhibition due to the discoverability of the committee's reports. [ Davidson, supra at 140 .]”
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.