Ricciardi v. Children's Hospital Medical Center’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 18 · 1987
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989), Trepel v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1999)
32 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 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 Hanna v. Plumer · Chuff v. Board of Education of Central School District 2 · Thompson v. Chrysler Motors Corp. · Birnbaum v. United States · McInnis v. A.M.F., 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses, made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, if kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity, and if it was the regular practice of that business activity to make the memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, all as shown by the testimony of the custodian or other qualified witness . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Records kept by hospitals ... under [G.L.c. 111, § 70] shall be admissible ... as evidence ... so far as such records relate to the treatment and medical history of such cases....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doyle v. Dong“a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.”
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.