Roberts v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.3d 647 · 1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Vess v. Ciba-Geigy Corp. USA (2003), Adams v. Arthur (1998)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Hanna v. Plumer · United States Glass v. Medtronic Inc · Ryder v. Morris · Commercial Property Investments, Inc. v. Quality Inns International, Inc. · Berkeley Pump Co. v. Reed-Joseph Land Co.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“include the time, place, and contents of the alleged fraud; the identity of the person allegedly committing fraud; and what was given up or obtained by the alleged fraud.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“doctrine does not apply. A careful reading of Arkansas law indicates that the recognized exception is limited to those situations wherein a plaintiff cannot identify one treatment that produced his injury but where his injury was the result of several treatments-a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[wlhere, however, a patient is able to identify the specific negligent treatment that caused his/her injury, the continuous treatment does not toll the statute of limitations.”
1 later decision 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.