Bustillos v. Rowley’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 34th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc. · Parsons v. Turley · Bowie Memorial Hospital v. Wright · Jernigan v. Langley · Garcia v. Martinez Ex Rel. Martinez
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“indicating that if Ms. Arriola had been properly monitored, emergency department personnel could have detected and treated the worsening symptoms of Ms. Arriola's pulmonary edema, the life-threatening condition which was aggravated by the preventable conditions of cardio-vascular collapse and cardiac arrest and cause of her death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Constancio v. Bray
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.