Johnson v. Egtedar’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Banks Ex Rel. Banks v. Sunrise Hosp. (2004), Wyeth v. Rowatt (2010)
37 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 Beattie v. Thomas · Carson Ready Mix, Inc. v. First National Bank · Village Development Co. v. Filice · Otterbeck v. Lamb · Downing v. Marlia
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] foreign substance other than medication or a prosthetic device was unintentionally left within the body of a patient following surgery.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] 11 a plaintiff need do to warrant an instruction under the statutory medical malpractice res ipsa loquitur rule is present some evidence of the existence of one or more of the factual predicates enumerated in the statute. If the trier of fact then finds that one or more of the factual predicates exist, then the presumption must be applied. This is the approach taken in Nev. J.I. 6.17.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An injury was suffered during the course of treatment to a part of the body not directly involved in the treatment or proximate thereto.”
2 later decisions 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.