Rodriguez v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1989), 99 Wash. 2d 438 - Harris v. Groth (1983)
40 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 154 Cal. App. 2d 560 - Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees · Di Filippo v. Preston · Schueler v. Strelinger · Shea v. Phillips · Livingston v. Citizen's Utility, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A] distinction must be made between testimony as to cause and testimony relative to the standard of care required of a physician. One need not necessarily be a medical doctor in order to testify as to causation.... However, appellant's witnesses were not competent to give an opinion as to whether the doctors were negligent. Unless the conduct complained of is readily ascertainable by laymen, the standard of care must be established by medical testimony. [Citations omitted.]"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"More than twenty-three hundred years ago Aristotle, in his work on Politics, wrote: `As a physician ought to be judged by the physician, so ought men to be judged by their peers.' And for centuries the courts of this and other countries have, almost without exception, held that expert medical evidence is required to establish negligence respecting the service a physician or a surgeon renders his patient."”
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.