Buck v. Blum’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Loaisiga v. Cerda (2012), Mokkala v. Mead (2005)
1 district · 50 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 333rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Otis Engineering Corp. v. Clark · Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Currie · Sorokolit v. Rhodes · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Hagenloh
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Health care liability claim” means a cause of action against a health care provider or physician for treatment, lack of treatment, or other claimed departure from accepted standards of medical care, or health care, or safety or professional or administrative services directly related to health care, which proximately results in injury to or death of a claimant, whether the claimant’s claim or cause of action sounds in tort or contract.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] cause of action against a health care provider or physician for treatment, lack of treatment, or other claimed departure from accepted standards of medical care, or health care ... which proximately results in injury to or death of a claimant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“since the procedure itself was part of the examination, and thus within the scope of Yen's authority, the use of Yen's body part was simply an inappropriate exercise of delegated authority.”
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.