165 Ill. App. 3d 367 - Hagood v. O'CONNER’s Empirical Analysis

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38 state decisions

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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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In any action, whether in tort, contract or otherwise, in which the plaintiff seeks damages for injuries or death by reason of medical, hospital, or other healing art malpractice, the plaintiff’s attorney or the plaintiff, if the plaintiff is proceeding pro se, shall file an affidavit, attached to the original and all copies of the complaint, declaring one of the following: 1. That the affiant has consulted and reviewed the facts of the case with a health professional who the affiant reasonably believes is knowledgeable in the relevant issues involved in the particular action and who practices in the same specialty as the defendant if the defendant is a specialist; that the reviewing health professional has determined in a written report, after a review of the medical record and other relevant material involved in the particular action that there is a reasonable and meritorious cause for the filing of such action; and that the affiant has concluded on the basis of the reviewing health professional’s review and consultation that there is a reasonable and meritorious cause for filing of such action. If the affidavit is filed as to a defendant who is a physician licensed to treat human ailments without the use of drugs or medicines and without operative surgery, a dentist, a podiatrist, or a psychologist, the written report must be from a health professional licensed in the same profession, with the same class of license", as the defendant. For affidavits filed as to all other ”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 173 Ill. App. 3d 1034 - Relaford v. Kyaw · 169 Ill. App. 3d 845 - Alford v. Phipps

2. ““[A] licensed physician in Illinois is a legally qualified practitioner in every so-called medical specialty. Therefore, for the purposes of this Act, a physician who is licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches may evaluate the treatment given by any other physician who is licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches, even if the defendant physician holds himself out to be a specialist.” Hagood, 165 Ill. App. 3d at 372-73 , 519 N.E.2d at 69 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 180 Ill. App. 3d 632 - Moss v. Gibbons

3. ““This Act shall be liberally construed, to the end that controversies may be speedily and finally determined according to the substantive rights of the parties. The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law must be strictly construed does not apply to this Act or to the rules made in relation thereto.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 110, par. 1 — 106.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 173 Ill. App. 3d 1034 - Relaford v. Kyaw