Daboll v. Hoden’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Meyer v. Nottger (1976), Lewis v. State (1977)
61 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 Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Gory Roofing Tile Manufacturing, Inc. v. Davison · United States v. Lucchese · Pierce v. Ford Motor Co. · Barbara R. Gross v. Southern Railway Company, Nancy Ruth Canipelli v. Southern Railway Company
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the rule is to avoid useless trials. Where there is no genuine issue of fact to be decided, the party with a just cause should be able to obtain a judgment promptly and without the expense and delay of a trial, [citations] ‘In ruling on a motion for summary judgment, the court’s function is to determine whether such a genuine issue exists, not to decide the merits of one which does.’ [citation].””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'On appeal from a summary judgment, the record must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion. The moving party bears the burden of showing both that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A prima facie case of medical malpractice must normally consist of evidence which establishes the applicable standard of care, demonstrates that this standard has been violated, and develops a causal relationship between the violation and the harm complained of... ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Taylor · Harris v. Grizzle
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.