Patterson v. Marcus’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 1966 · most notably 24 Cal. 2d 81 - Lawless v. Calaway (1944), 25 Cal. 2d 341 - People v. Wilson (1944)
34 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 Perkins v. Trueblood · 29 Cal. App. 321 - Houghton v. Dickson · Edwards v. Uland · Schumacher v. Murray Hospital · Brewer v. Ring
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been held in this state that the implied contract on the part of the physician is that he possesses that reasonable degree of learning and skill possessed by others of his profession, and that he will exercise reasonable and ordinary care and skill in the application of that learning to accomplish the purpose for which he is employed. (Houghton v. Dickson, 29 Cal. App. 321 [ 155 Pac. 128 ].) As to what is or is not the proper practice is uniformly a question for experts and can be established only by their testimony.”
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.