Stein v. Katz’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Witt v. St. Vincent's Medical Center (2000), Blanchette v. Barrett (1994)
4 district · 25 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 Daily v. New Britain Machine Co. · Ecker v. Town of West Hartford · Gentile v. Altermatt · Buckley v. Valeo · McDonald v. Haynes Medical Laboratory, Inc.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action to recover damage for injury to the person. . . caused by malpractice of a physician. . . shall be brought but within two years from the date when the injury was first sustained or discovered. . . except that no such action may be brought more than three years from the date of the act or omission complained of . . . . (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At common law every suit, whether founded on contract or tort, abated on the death of the plaintiff or the defendant before judgment.”
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.