Fox v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Hicks v. United States (1966), Bly v. Rhoads (1976)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Knowles v. Blue · Hunter v. Burroughs · Kuhn v. Brownfield · Lawson v. Conaway · Ricketts v. J. G. McCrory 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the care and diligence, and skill required, relates to professional duties and not to nursing and providing necessaries, etc. He is not bound to nurse his patients and provide for them, though he is required to instruct others how to do it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such as is exercised generally by physicians of ordinary care and skill in similar communities.”
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.