Pugsley v. Privette’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Perna v. Pirozzi (1983), Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Melendez (2000)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 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 Tri-State Coach Corp. v. Walsh · Whitfield v. Whittaker Memorial Hospital · White v. Barnes · 110 Ga. App. 477 - Mims v. Boland · S & C COMPANY v. Horne
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] surgical operation on the body of a person is a technical battery or trespass unless he or some authorized person consented to it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... [T]he evidence is overwhelming that the all-pervasive complications, which accounted in large measure for plaintiff's damages, are those that resulted from the injury to the ureter. Since we believe the admission of the complained of testimony could not have altered the ultimate outcome of the case or had any material effect on the amount of the verdict, we hold that any error in its admission was harmless. [ 263 S.E. 2d at 76 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is immaterial to the issue of battery that . . . the operation was not negligently performed.”
1 later decision 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.