Stephens v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Pappa v. Bonner (1958), 192 Pa. Super. 68 - Simon v. Hospital Service Ass'n (1960)
35 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 Ex Parte Rosenblum · Robinson v. Crotwell · Lewis v. Martin · Staloch v. Holm · Moore v. Smith
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled in our cases that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur does not apply in malpractice cases; the bad or unfavorable result, standing alone, unless in cases of palpable misconduct within common knowledge, is not evidence of negligence which will shift the burden to defendant. “The evidence must afford a reasonable inference of want of ordinary skill or diligence as a proximate cause of such results. Dabney v. Briggs, 219 Ala. 127 , 121 So. 394 . “This does not mean the fact of death [serious illness] and the circumstances of it are not evidence to be considered along with the other evidence in passing upon the question of negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pappa v. Bonner
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.