167 Ga. App. 653 - Killingsworth v. Poon’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1989), Toogood v. Rogal (2003)
29 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 Shea v. Phillips · 146 Ga. App. 341 - Hughes v. Malone · 108 Ga. App. 360 - Hayes v. Brown · Rush v. Atlanta Railway & Power Co. · 63 Ga. App. 451 - Pilgrim v. Landham
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`although connected with medicine, are so well known as not to require expert testimony to place them before the jury, or where the case concerns matters which juries must be credited with knowing by reason of common knowledge. [Cits.]' Stated another way, this evidentiary burden on plaintiff-patients to produce such expert medical testimony is applicable except in those cases where the asserted actionable negligence would appear to be so clear from the evidence then of record that expert testimony would, at that point, otherwise be unnecessary to establish a prima facie case of malpractice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“those exceedingly rare cases wherein the medical questions presented concern matters which a jury can be credited with knowing by reason of common knowledge or the possibility of actionable medical negligence appears so clearly from the record that the plaintiff-patient need not produce expert medical testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johns v. Jarrard
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.