Smith v. Cotter’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
4
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Beattie v. Thomas · Di Filippo v. Preston · 117 Ill. App. 3d 1 - Guebard v. Jabaay · Karp v. Cooley · Downer v. Veilleux
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“disclose information that a reasonable practitioner in the same field of practice would disclose . . . 1, and] the professional standard must be determined by expert testimony regarding the custom and practice of the particular field of medical practice.”
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.