Washington v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2010
8 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 Corbett v. Clarke · Katzenberger v. Bryan · Powell v. Troland
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he general rule is that if an injured person uses ordinary care in selecting a physician for treatment of his injury, the law regards the aggravation of the injury resulting from the negligent act of the physician as a part of the immediate and direct damages which naturally flow from the original injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. BYUNGKI KIM“Whether the physician's negligent acts cause a mere aggravation of the original injury or cause instead a separate and distinct injury should, as a general rule, be left to the determination of a jury, guided by ordinary principles of proximate cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. BYUNGKI KIM“that the aggravation of [an] injury by the negligent treatment of [a] physician is a result that might reasonably have been anticipated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. BYUNGKI KIM
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.