Douglas v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1979
14 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 Reed v. Church · 63 Ga. App. 451 - Pilgrim v. Landham · Moncrief v. Interstate Transit Lines · Brewer v. Ring · Moulton v. Huckleberry
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where a patient's physician informs a surgeon of the diagnosis which the physician has made, and with the authority of the patient employs the surgeon to perform an operation which the physician deems advisable or necessary, the surgeon may rely upon the diagnosis of the physician and is not required to make an independent diagnosis before operating, in the absence of information or conditions which would put the surgeon upon inquiry as to the correctness of the physician's diagnosis and the advisability or necessity for the operation." In re Estate of Johnson, 145 Neb. 333 , 16 N.W.2d 504, 506, 511 . See, also, Pilgrim v. Landham, 63 Ga.App. 451 , 11 S.E.2d 420, 422 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maercklein v. Smith
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.