Conrad v. St. Clair’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2001
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
Relies on Siverson v. Weber · 13 Cal. 2d 216 - Engelking v. Carlson · Mann v. Safeway Stores, Inc. · Stoddard v. Nelson · Peggy Ray Walker Kingston v. M. S. McGrath
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . the doctrine must be limited to those cases where a layman is able to say as a matter of common knowledge and observation that the consequences of professional treatment were not such as ordinarily would have followed if due care had not been exercised. Where such facts are absent, expert medical evidence is required to prove negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.