Lawrence v. Wirth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Miller v. Johnson (1986), Langley v. Boyter (1984)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Los Alamos Medical Center, Inc. v. Coe · Blair v. Eblen · Haywood v. Massie · 90 W. Va. 230 - Jenkins v. Charleston General Hospital & Training School · 52 N.J. Super. 115 - Flynn v. Stearns
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well-established principle of tort law that, to bar recovery, a plaintiff’s negligence must concur with the defendant’s. . . . Therefore, a patient’s neglect of his health following his physician’s negligent treatment may be a reason for reducing damages but does not bar all recovery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the evidence supports] a conclusion that the health care provider failed to comply with the appropriate standard of care and that such failure is a proximate cause of the alleged damages; but the evidence does not show that the Defendant’s failure to comply with the appropriate standard of care was the proximate cause of Mrs. Lawrence’s medical problems subsequent to December 30, 1977. [Emphasis added to language omitted by the Defendants in their memorandum].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to be contributory, negligence must be contemporaneous with the main fact charged as negligence, and that the patient’s negligence after dismissal of the physician or his abandonment of the case does not bar recovery for the negligence of the [physician] committed before termination of the relation.”
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.