Edwards v. Quackenbush’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably Mayer v. Sampson (1965), Kitto v. Gilbert (1977)
25 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 Rains v. Rains · McGraw v. Kerr · Riss & Co. v. Anderson · Brown v. Hughes · Daly v. Lininger
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hat had the ileum been severed completely the early death of the plaintiff from peritonitis, caused by the consequent flooding of the abdominal cavity with fecal matter, would have been almost inevitable, and since she had not perished, expressed as their opinion, that the intestine had not been severed in the appendectomy. Plaintiffs met this theory with expert medical testimony to the effect, as it was said the second operation actually revealed, that through nature’s protective processes, the upper end of the severed bowel, following the line of least resistance, had become adherent to the abdominal wall at the place of incision and there had formed a seal whereby the fecal matter from the organs above was discharged on the outside of the abdomen and that point, and that coincidentally the lower severed end of the intestine, being deprived of fluid, had sealed off and taken a position of repose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Born v. Eisenman
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.