Frogge v. Shugrue’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1997
19 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 Slimak v. Foster · Chubb v. Holmes · MacKey v. Dobrucki · Puza v. Hamway · Person v. Lilliendahl
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]pon this record the sole ground upon which to predicate a verdict for the plaintiff is the defendant's failure to inform her that the broken roots remained in her jaw.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no expert testimony supporting the essential finding that in the exercise of due care and skill the defendant should have known that these root fragments remained.”
1 later decision 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.