162 Cal. App. 3d 618 - Baker v. Sadick’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably 40 Cal. 3d 734 - Victoria v. Superior Court (1985), 76 N.C. App. 16 - Rodgers Builders, Inc. v. McQueen (1985)
24 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 17 Cal. 3d 699 - Madden v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 58 Cal. 2d 862 - Steven v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. · Garrity v. Lyle Stuart, Inc. · Wheeler v. St. Joseph Hospital · 24 Cal. 3d 442 - Taylor v. Crane
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any contract for medical services which contains a provision for arbitration of any dispute as to professional negligence of a health care provider shall ... [utilize the following language:] `It is understood that any dispute as to medical malpractice, that is as to whether any medical services rendered under this contract were unnecessary or unauthorized or were improperly, negligently or incompetently rendered, will be determined by submission to arbitration....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) Immediately before the signature line provided for the individual contracting for the medical services must appear the following in at least 10-point bold red type:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a negligent act or omission to act ... in the rendering of professional services.”
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.