Roark v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1975
5 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 Barnett's Administrator v. Brand · Samuels v. Willis · Gouner v. Brosnan · Cottingham v. Equitable Building & Loan Ass'n
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the maxim res ipsa loquitur were applicable to a case like this and a failure to cure were held to be evidence, however slight, of negligence on the part of the physician or surgeon causing the. bad result, few would be courageous enough to practice the healing art, for they would have to assume financial liability for nearly ajl of the ills that the flesh is heir to.””
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.