Abdallah’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “enough information to enable [it] to make an investigation in order to determine if the claims should be settled without suit.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Jamila Russell v. Superior Court of the Virgin I · Abdallah v. Callender

2. “any tort or breach of contract based on health care or professional services rendered,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ference v. V.I. Family Sports & Fitness Center, Inc. · Abdallah v. Callender

3. “We conclude that the medical malpractice causing an infant stillbirth constitutes a tort against the parents, entailing the direct infliction of injury, their emotional distress and mental suffering, for which they are entitled to recover compensatory damages. . . . . Medical malpractice causing a stillbirth results in infliction of a direct injury to the mother as well as to her unborn child. Even without any permanent physical harm, the mother suffers severe and genuine injuries in the form of emotional distress and mental anguish occasioned by her baby's stillbirth. This suffering is experienced, also, by the father of the infant. Thus, in a case such as this, the injury suffered by the mother and the father on the stillbirth of their eagerly expected first child is palpable and predictable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 678 So. 2d 1317 - Tanner v. Hartog