Pendleton v. Cilley’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably 72 Ill. 2d 249 - Walski v. Tiesenga (1978), Nicoletti v. Westcor, Inc. (1982)
35 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 Peterson v. Valley National Bank of Phoenix · Boyce v. Brown · Riedisser v. Nelson · Hall v. Motorists Insurance Corporation · Stevens v. Anderson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is established that a physician's negligence must be shown by expert medical testimony unless the negligence is so grossly apparent that a layman would have no difficulty in recognizing it. Harvey v. Kellin, 115 Ariz. 496 , 566 P.2d 297 (1977); Riedisser v. Nelson, 111 Ariz. 542 , 534 P.2d 1052 (1975); Boyce v. Brown, 51 Ariz. 416 , 77 P.2d 455 (1938). The burden of establishing negligence must be met both at trial and in opposition to the defendant's motion for summary judgment. Riedisser, supra; Abernethy v. Smith, 17 Ariz. App. 363 , 498 P.2d 175 (1972). We have said that a party opposing a motion for summary judgment must show that evidence is available which would justify a trial of that issue. Crocker v. Crocker, 103 Ariz. 497 , 446 P.2d 226 (1968)."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The question of a physician's skill or failure to use his skill is a material question of fact, and on a motion for summary judgment, the party opposing the motion must show that at trial, [sic] he would be able to show evidence that the physician lacked or did not apply the proper skills."”
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.