Barnes v. Schlein’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Catz v. Rubenstein (1986), Zichichi v. Middlesex Memorial Hospital (1987)
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 180 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 United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission · Burns v. Hartford Hospital · Breen v. Phelps · Yanow v. Teal Industries, Inc. · Bartha v. Waterbury House Wrecking Co.
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the failure of one rendering professional services to exercise that degree of skill and learning commonly applied under all the circumstances in the community by the average prudent reputable member of the profession with the result of injury, loss, or damage to the recipient of those services. . . .”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o action to recover damages for injury to the person, or to real or personal property, caused by . . . malpractice of a . . . dentist . . . shall be brought but within two years from the date when the injury is first sustained or discovered or in the exercise of reasonable care should have been discovered, and except that no such action may be brought more than three years from the date of the act or omission complained of. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although an expert opinion may lead to discovery of an 'actionable harm[,]' ... it does not follow that a plaintiff cannot reasonably discover an injury absent verification by a qualified expert.”
5 later decisions 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.