Hannemann v. Boyson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2025
21 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 Chapman v. State of California · Neder v. United States · 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital · Bing v. Thunig
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [common law] obligation to secure informed consent before performing a procedure was premised on the notion that `a person of sound mind has a right to determine, even as against his physician, what is to be done to his body.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A failure to diagnose is one form of malpractice. A failure to obtain informed consent is another discrete form of malpractice, requiring a consideration of additional and different factors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the error?'”
2 later decisions 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.