Creighton v. Karlin’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1983
19 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 Phelps v. Donaldson · Stephen J. Kozan v. Dr. Glenn E. Comstock · 163 So. 2d 186 - Brooks v. Robinson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Accordingly, we hold that a failure to treat the patient with the standard of professional skill and care customarily prevailing in the locality can constitute a breach of, and give rise to an action on, the implied contract between patient and physician and such an action is prescribed by the lapse of ten years."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The plaintiff is not required under our laws of pleading to elect a specific remedy or adopt a theory of the case. It is sufficient that she plead the facts and set forth a cause of action entitling her to judgment for the damages alleged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.