107 Ga. App. 64 - Porter v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably 137 Ga. App. 633 - Hill v. Hospital Authority (1976), Lamb v. Candler General Hospital, Inc. (1992)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Shea v. Phillips · 27 Cal. 2d 296 - Rice v. California Lutheran Hospital · 27 Ga. App. 494 - Davis v. Carter · Beavers v. LeSueur · Swigerd v. City of Ortonville
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Negligence or breach of duty is not to be anticipated, but until the contrary is shown it is to be presumed that every man obeys the mandates of the law and performs all of his social and official duties.' Beavers v. LeSueur, 188 Ga. 393, 402 ( 3 SE2d 667 ). To the same effect, see Suddath v. Blanchard & Calhoun, 39 Ga. App. 262 (2) ( 146 SE 798 ). `It is never to be presumed that a person will commit a wrongful act or will act negligently or improperly.' Atlantic C. L. R. Co. v. Brown, 82 Ga. App. 889, 892 ( 62 SE2d 736 ). `Where no unusual features are involved which call for an exercise of medical skill or experience, a doctor may reasonably take for granted that the experienced nurses on the staff of a modern hospital will attend to their ordinary and customary duties without detailed instructions. See Annotation, 4 ALR 1527 .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Accordingly, following the lead of the Minnesota Supreme Court, `we adopt the rule that a hospital is liable for the negligence of its nurses in performing mere administrative or clerical acts, which acts, though constituting a part of a patient's prescribed medical treatment, do not require the application of the specialized technique or the understanding of a skilled physician or surgeon. This rule, in recognizing that the right of control remains with the hospital as the general employer, is consistent with the nature of such acts and is in accord with the custom which in everyday practice governs the relationship between the hospital staff and the attending physicians.'”
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.