183 N.J. Super. 8 - Tisdale v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2004
2 district · 18 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 Baxter v. Fairmont Food Co. · Fosgate v. Corona · 72 N.J. Super. 100 - Dalton v. Gesser · Paxton v. Misiuk · Sweeney v. Pruyne
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the usual malpractice case a physician is in a much better position with respect to the proofs to express an opinion on causal relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We think the principle a sound one in the circumstance here presented of malpractice in the treatment of a preexisting disease or condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to require the burden of proof to be shifted to the defendants to apportion plaintiff's injuries based on her pre-existing conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.