Dohr v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1990
18 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 Foster v. Thornton · 84 So. 2d 34 - Montgomery v. Stary · Foster v. Thornton · Hudson, Et Vir v. Weiland
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The surgeon may have been generally in command from the beginning of the operation to the end or, as appellants term him in the brief, `captain of the ship' but it is clear to us that he and the anesthetist were working in highly expert fields peculiar to each and that despite the common goal, the successful repair of the patient's ulcer, their responsibilities were not inextricably bound together. Hudson v. Weiland, 150 Fla. 523 , 8 So.2d 37 ." 104 So.2d at 32 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We do not think the appellants should be defeated simply because no expert testified that what happened in this case amounted to negligence on the part of the anesthetist. To repeat, the very caution she undertook to exercise undermines her position. The jury could have decided from common knowledge and experience, regardless of expert testimony, that the patient needlessly suffered from a condition the anesthetist herself sought to prevent. Montgomery v. Stary, Fla., 84 So.2d 34 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“even when the greatest skill and care were exercised”
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.