LaBieniec v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Petriello v. Kalman (1990), Kramer v. Lewisville Memorial Hospital (1993)
4 district · 73 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 Cooper v. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Inc. · Pisel v. Stamford Hospital · Boehm v. Kish · Katsetos v. Nolan · Shelnitz v. Greenberg
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant must have a duty to conform to a particular standard of conduct for the plaintiff's protection; (2) the defendant must have failed to measure up to that standard; (3) the plaintiff must suffer actual injury; and (4) the defendant's conduct must be the cause of the plaintiff's injury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f a plaintiff is proximately harmed by a delay in a definitive diagnosis, a physician may be held liable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o matter how negligent a party may be, if his act bears no causal relation to the injury, it is not actionable.”
2 later decisions 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.