20 Utah 2d 199 - Christiansen v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Maughan v. SW Servicing, Inc. (1985), Flanagan v. Mount Eden General Hospital (1969)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 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 Rosane v. Senger · Berry v. Branner · 149 W. Va. 783 - Morgan v. Grace Hospital, Inc. · Johnson v. St. Patrick's Hospital · Peteler v. Robinson
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the question of whether the plaintiff commenced his action within four years after he knew, or should have known, of the presence of the surgical needle in his body is an issue to be resolved by the trier of facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brower v. Brown“[it seems somewhat incongruous that an injured person must commence a malpractice action pri- or to the time he knew, or reasonably should have known, of his injury and right of action.”
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.