Rodgers v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 157 · 1948
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably Canterbury v. Spence (1972), Morrison v. MacNamara (1979)
35 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 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 Gunning v. Cooley · Pennsylvania Co v. Chamberlain · Ewing v. Goode · Christie v. Callahan · Gunning v. Cooley
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that degree of care and skill ordinarily exercised by the profession in his own or similar localities.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A physician cannot discharge himself from a case and relieve himself of responsibility for it by simply abandoning it or staying away without notice to the patient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a question of the merits of a diagnosis and scientific treatment”
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.