169 Ga. App. 662 - Singleton v. Airco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2010
8 federal appellate · 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 147 Ga. App. 481 - Hawkins v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc. · 124 Ga. App. 224 - PARKE, DAVIS & COMPANY v. Mayes · 85 Ga. App. 405 - Webb v. Sandoz Chemical Works Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a medical expert, the prescribing physician can take into account the propensities of the drug, as well as the susceptibilities of his patient. His is the task of weighing the benefits of any medication against its potential dangers ... [and he] acts as a `learned intermediary' between manufacturer and consumer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“drug insert warnings adequate for the use of a professional trained in the administration of anesthesia, and that the [defendant was] not in any way responsible for [the plaintiff's] death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`in the case of prescription drugs, a warning as to possible danger in its use to the prescribing physician is sufficient.'”
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.