Peck v. Tegtmeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2010
2 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · McConnell v. Williams · Danville Community Hospital, Inc. v. Thompson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A witness shall be qualified to testify as an expert on the standard of care if he demonstrates expert knowledge of the standards of the defendant’s specialty and if he has had active clinical practice in either the defendant’s specialty or a related field of medicine within one year of the date of the alleged act or omission forming the basis of the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While the qualification requirements may be viewed as 'procedural' rules, they are ‘intimately bound up’ with a state substantive rule, the standard of care itself” and thus”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In other words, under the statutory scheme, the standard of care is that which is testified to by an expert qualified under the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Legg v. Chopra
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.