Bly v. Rhoads’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Sard v. Hardy (1977), Harnish v. Children's Hospital Medical Center (1982)
12 federal appellate · 78 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · Canterbury v. Spence · Wilkinson v. Vesey · 58 Wis. 2d 569 - Trogun v. Fruchtman
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Virginia, at least since 1918, when we decided Hunter v. Burroughs, supra, 123 Va. at 131, 96 S.E. at 366, the standard of due medical care applicable to specialists has been that of ‘other like specialists in good standing, in the same or similar localities as defendant.’ We reiterated this rule in Fox v. Mason, 139 Va. 667, 671 , 124 S.E. 405, 406 (1924), where we set out the ‘same or similar community’ standard applicable to physicians and surgeons and then said, ‘[t]he rule is the same as to specialists’” (footnote omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The matters involved in the disclosure syndrome, more often than not, are complicated and highly technical. To leave the establishment of such matters to lay witnesses, in our opinion, would pose dangers and disadvantages which far outweigh the benefits and advantages a ‘modern trend’ rule would bestow on patient-plaintiffs. In effect, the relaxed ‘modern trend’ rule permits lay witnesses to express, when all is said and done, what amounts to a medical opinion. 216 Va. at 650 , 222 S.E.2d at 787 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.