Knight v. Lowery’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Dollar v. Long Mfg, N. C., Inc. (1977), Posey v. Medical Center-West, Inc. (1987)
9 federal appellate · 36 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 Derby v. Prewitt · McMillen v. Klingensmith · Oxford Commercial Corp. v. Landau · Donaldson v. Carmichael · Young v. State
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A release by an injured party of the tort-feasor responsible for the original injury does not per se, in the absence of language indicative of such an intention on the part of the parties, preclude a second action by the injured party against a physician or hospital for negligent treatment or medical care of the original injury, if there has been less than full compensation recovered for the injured party’s total injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless (a) all damages, including those caused by the doctor, were paid in full, or (b) the parties intended thereby to release both tortfeasors.”
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.