Rosane v. Senger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 10 district · 104 state decisions

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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[a] hospital, a corporation as here, can not be licensed to, and can not practice medicine and surgery. The relation between doctor and patient is personal. That a hospital employs doctors on its staff does not make it liable for the discharge of their professional duty since it is powerless, under the law, to command or forbid any act by them in the practice of their profession. Unless it employs those whose want of skill is known, or should be known, to it, or by some special conduct or neglect makes itself responsible for their malpractice ... it cannot be held liable therefor.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rodriquez Ex Rel. Rodriquez v. City & County of Denver · Townsend v. Kiracoff

2. “[a] legal right to damage for an injury is property and one can not [sic] be deprived of his property without due process. There can be no due process unless the party deprived has his day in court.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ace Flying Service, Inc. v. Colorado Department of Agriculture · State Ex Rel. Colorado State Claims Board of the Division of Risk Management v. DeFoor

3. “enacted for the purpose of promoting justice, discouraging unnecessary delay and forestalling the prosecution of stale claims, not for the benefit of the negligent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Aurora v. Bechtel Corp.