Wemett v. Mount’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1981 · most notably Porter v. Puryear (1953), Hansen v. Isaak (1945)
2 district · 25 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 Lehman v. Knott · Sullivan v. Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. · Ballance v. Dunnington · Emerson v. Lumbermen's Hospital Ass'n · Brown v. Lent
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the treatment of a patient by whom he is employed, it is his undertaking to exercise that degree of care, skill, diligence and knowledge which is ordinarily possessed by the average of the members of his profession in good standing in similar localities: Lehman v. Knott, 100 Or. 59 ( 196 P. 476 ); Emerson v. Lumbermen’s Hospital Ass’n., 100 Or. 472 ( 198 P. 231 ); Patterson v. Howe, 102 Or. 275 ( 202 P. 225 ); Hamilton v. Kelsey, 126 Or. 26 ( 268 P. 750 ).” Wemett v. Mount, 134 Or. 305 ( 292 P. 93 ); Spicer v. Benefit Ass’n., 142 Or. 575 ( 17 P. (2d) 1107 , 21 P. (2d) 187 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Darling v. Semler
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.