Super v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on ITT Commercial Finance Corp. v. Mid-America Marine Supply Corp. · Callahan v. Cardinal Glennon Hospital · Wollen v. DePaul Health Center · Coleman Ex Rel. Coleman v. Gilyard · Tompkins v. Cervantes
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'except where the want of skill or lack of care is so apparent as to require only common knowledge and experience to understand and judge it.' " Super v. White , 18 S.W.3d 511 , 516 (Mo. App. 2000) (citation omitted). Moreover, "[w]hen the plaintiff relies on expert testimony to provide evidence as to causation when there are two or more possible causes, that testimony must be given to a reasonable degree of medical certainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Waring“there is a sophisticated injury, requiring surgical intervention or other highly scientific technique for diagnosis, proof of causation is not within a lay person's understanding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Waring“'except where the want of skill or lack of care is so apparent as to require only common knowledge and experience to understand and judge it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Waring
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.