102 N.C. App. 332 - Grigg v. Lester’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2018
17 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 Snow v. Duke Power Co. · HE MOODY v. Town of Carrboro · 68 N.C. App. 202 - Parks v. Perry · Mitchell v. Saunders · Mitchell v. . Saunders
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 common knowledge, experience and sense of laymen qualifies them to conclude that some medical injuries are not likely to occur if proper care and skill is used; included, inter alia , are injuries resulting from surgical instruments or other foreign objects left in the body following surgery and injuries to a part of the patient's anatomy outside of the surgical field.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the injury is of a type that does not ordinarily occur in the absence of some negligent act or omission.”
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.