144 Cal. App. 4th 1381 - Baumgardner v. Yusuf’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 8 Cal. 4th 548 - Soule v. General Motors Corp. · 25 Cal. 2d 486 - Ybarra v. Spangard · Washakie County School District Number One v. Herschler · Maloney v. Rath
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The jury should have been instructed in unqualified language that if the surgeon closed the incision without first having removed the sponge, a prima facie case was thereby made against him as a matter of law ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ochoa v. Vered · Ochoa v. Vered“a surgeon cannot delegate responsibility for removing sponges from a patient's body”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ochoa v. Vered · Ochoa v. Vered
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.