Hunnicutt v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 119 · 1993
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2024
8 federal appellate · 7 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 · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Ramos v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Mississippi Power Co. v. Harrison
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he routine acts of treatment of which an attending physician may reasonably assume may be performed in his absence by nurses of a modern hospital as part of their usual and customary duties and execution of which does not require specialized medical knowledge, are administrative acts for which negligence in their performance is imputable to the hospital.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law imposes liability on a physician for the negligence of a nurse only if the nurse committed the negligent acts or omissions pursuant to the direction and control of the physician.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All of the Mississippi authorities on this point clearly and unequivocally state that where a party settles with one defendant, any remaining defendant receives credit for the settlement received from the released defendant.”
2 later decisions 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.