105 Ind. App. 331 - Adkins v. Ropp’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably Worster v. Caylor (1953), Kranda v. Houser-Norborg Medical Corp. (1981)
27 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 Wenning v. Teeple · Funk v. Bonham · Chicago & Erie Railroad v. Fretz · Longfellow v. Vernon · Edwards v. Uland
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the absence of some countervailing circumstances, the general rule in malpractice cases is that, in determining whether the physician and surgeon has exercised ordinary skill and care in the diagnosis of the disease and treatment of the patient and the result obtained thereby, the jury must be guided solely by the testimony of physicians and surgeons because of the scientific nature and character of the questions usually involved in such cases, and the jury cannot set up standards of skill and care of its own."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"You are further instructed that where a physician holds himself out as having special knowledge and skill in the field of-medicine, such a physician is bound to bring to the discharge of his duty to a patient employing him as such a specialist, not merely the average degree of skill possessed by general practitioners, but that special degree of skill and knowledge possessed by physicians who are specialists in the treatment of such conditions in light of the then existing state of scientific knowledge."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hobbs v. Tierney“"The degree of skill and care required of the physician or surgeon who is employed because he is a specialist, is that degree of skill and knowledge which is ordinarily possessed by physicians and surgeons who devote special attention to the ailment, its diagnosis and treatment, in similar localities."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hobbs v. Tierney
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.