Schulz v. Celotex Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
942 F.2d 204 · 1991
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Brown v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1994), Holbrook v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. (1996)
8 federal appellate · 1 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hanna v. Plumer · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Lumpkin v. Lumpkin · Belisle v. Anzivino
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“form an opinion with sufficient certainty so as to make a medical judgment,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Combs v. Stortz · Galloway v. State“the determination of whether a particular evidentiary ruling involves federal procedural law or state substantive law, can be difficult. Often admissibility issues overlap with substantive concerns such as standards of proof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable degree of medical certainty,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.