Porter v. Puryear’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably Pool v. Ford Motor Co. (1986), Broders v. Heise (1996)
3 federal appellate · 123 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 In Re King's Estate · Benoit v. Wilson · Nardis Sportswear v. Simmons · Bowles v. Bourdon · Phoenix Refining Co. v. Tips
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is definitely settled with us that a patient has no cause of action against his doctor for malpractice, either in diagnosis or recognized treatment, unless he proves by a doctor of the same school of practice as the defendant: (1) that the diagnosis or treatment complained of was such as to constitute negligence and (2) that it was a proximate cause of the patient’s injuries.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The vital inquiry in any case involving proximate cause is whether the negligent act set in motion a natural and unbroken chain of events that led directly and proximately to a reasonably foreseeable injury or result. If so, it is immaterial that the actual injury was done by the last event in the series." (citing authorities)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Prosser states that if the defendant’s act or omission was a substantial factor in bringing about the result, it will be regarded as a cause in fact, and that ordinarily it will be such a substantial factor if the result would not have occurred without it. Prosser, Law of Torts, p. 321, sec. 46. . . . It has also been pointed out repeatedly that for the defendant’s negligence to be regarded as a proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injury, it is not necessary that the exact nature of the injury or the precise manner of its infliction should reasonably have been foreseen. It is sufficient that the defendant should reasonably have anticipated consequences or an injury of the general nature of that which ensued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.