Alberts v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Blea v. Fields (2005), Talbott v. Roswell Hospital Corp. (2005)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 36 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 Hamil v. Bashline · 643 So. 2d 1228 - Pfiffner v. Correa · Scott v. Rizzo · Pharmaseal Laboratories, Inc. v. Goffe · 582 So. 2d 1272 - Martin v. East Jefferson General Hosp.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“natural and continuous sequence [unbroken by an independent intervening cause] produces the injury,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“can be provided by expert testimony of the knowledge, skill and care ordinarily used by reasonably well-qualified doctors of the same field of medicine practicing under similar circumstances, and this includes testimony from doctors from the same or other localities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“specifically discussing a claim for loss of chance for a better outcome due to medical providers' negligence, but noting that the standard for proximate cause does not change when the injury is loss of chance as opposed to the ultimate injury to the patient”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.