172 W. Va. 360 - Thornton v. CAMC, ETC.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Kramer v. Lewisville Memorial Hospital (1993), 193 W. Va. 51 - State v. Honaker (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 33 Ill. 2d 326 - Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital · PepsiCo, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Cooper v. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Inc. · Jones v. Montefiore Hospital · Majors v. Brodhead Hotel
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a plaintiff in a malpractice case has demonstrated that a defendant’s acts or omissions have increased the risk of harm to the plaintiff and that such increased risk of harm was a substantial factor in bringing about the ultimate injury to the plaintiff, then the defendant is liable for such ultimate injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Learned Treatises — To the extent called to the attention of an expert witness upon cross-examination or relied upon the expert witness in direct examination, statements contained in published treatises, periodicals, or pamphlets on the subject of history, medicine or other science or art, established as a reliable authority by the testimony or admission of the witness or by expert testimony or by judicial notice. If admitted, the statements may be read into evidence but may not be received as exhibits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]he Supreme Court of Appeals is limited in its authority to resolve assignments of nonjurisdictional errors to a consideration of those matters passed upon by the court below and fairly arising upon the portions of the record designated for appellate review.””
2 later decisions 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.