Wasfi v. Chaddha’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Incorporated (1995), Childs v. Bainer (1995)
36 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 Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority · Darden v. Wainwright · Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc. · Fryzel v. Cash Currency Exchange, Inc. · Katsetos v. Nolan
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A physician is under a duty to his patient to exercise that degree of care, skill and diligence which physicians in the same general neighborhood and in the same general line of practice ordinarily possess and exercise in like cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]n intervening force is one which actively operates in producing harm to another after the actor's negligent act or omission has been committed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.