Chubb v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably Ardoline v. Keegan (1954), Shelnitz v. Greenberg (1986)
2 district · 36 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 Slimak v. Foster · Styles v. Tyler · Sweeney v. Erving · Leighton v. Sargent · Slade v. Harris
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only exception to this rule is afforded by cases `where there is manifest such obvious gross want of care or skill as to afford, of itself, an almost conclusive inference of [lack of skill or care] and dispense with the necessity of testimony by expert witnesses.' Slimak v. Foster, [ 106 Conn. 366 , 370 ].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]rdinarily, where the exercise of proper professional skill or care on the part of a physician, surgeon, dentist, or other similar practitioner is in issue, expert testimony tending to establish want of such skill or care is essential to a recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The reason, briefly stated, is that in most such cases a layman does not and cannot have the requisite knowledge as to whether the proper treatment was given, procedure followed, or care used.”
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.