Rees v. Roderiques’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2022
10 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 Corn v. French · Weaver Bros., Ltd. v. Misskelley · Hersh v. Hendley · Eikelberger v. Tolotti · Groomes v. Fox
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.
“The standard of care to be applied in a medical malpractice case is to be established by the testimony of expert witnesses with knowledge of the prevailing standards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had the jurors properly applied the instructions of the court, it would have been impossible for them to reach the verdict which they reached.”
1 later decision 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.