171 Ga. App. 821 - Lorentzson v. Rowell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2012
10 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 Brown v. Brown · Morris v. Johnstone · 157 Ga. App. 770 - Stephen W. Brown Radiology Associates v. Gowers · 158 Ga. App. 293 - Leagan v. Levine · Watson v. Elberton-Elbert County Hospital Authority
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, a cause of action will lie against a physician . . . who does not bring to the exercise of his profession a reasonable degree of care and skill. . . . “The standard of care and skill ... is that which, under like circumstances and in similar conditions, is employed by the medical profession generally. [Cits.]” [Cits.] 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilborn v. Blake“Under . . . the facts of this case admitted by the parties and uncontroverted, this court is unable to ascertain when and if the statute of limitation began to run as to . . . the products liability.”
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.