Cook v. Lichtblau’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1977
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Lanier v. Trammell · Benson v. . Dean · Small v. Howard · Richeson v. Roebber · 99 So. 2d 575 - Bourgeois v. Dade County
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from any cause is a contraindication for giving anesthesia. * * * that it was not in accordance with the usual judgment, skill and care ordinarily required for the practice of medicine on the part of a surgeon and anesthetist to have given anesthesia to David Cook under these circumstances and without treatment of the pre-existing”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Lichtblau“`That all of the foregoing in the last paragraph was not in accordance with the usual judgment, skill and care ordinarily required in the practice of medicine.' * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Lichtblau“i.e., was not what a reasonable and prudent physician would do and that this is negligence in any community in this country, including West Palm Beach. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Lichtblau
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.