Rishworth v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1943
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 City of San Antonio v. Talerico · Mohr v. Williams · Wilson v. Johnson · State v. Housekeeper · Pratt v. Davis
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law, as enunciated by the few courts which have passed thereon, is not as clear and satisfactory as it should be in cases of this character, but it seems to be reasonably established that a physician is liable for operating upon a patient unless he obtains the consent of the patient, if competent, and if not, of some one, who, under the circumstances, would be legally authorized to give the requisite consent. Of course, consent may be presumed from circumstances, without direct proof, but there must be consent in every case, except in an emergency when to delay to obtain consent would endanger the life or health of the patient.” (Rishworth v. Moss, 159 S. W. 122, at 124 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rolater v. Strain“The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rishworth v. Moss
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.