Grubbs v. Rawls’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Horton v. Carolina Medicorp, Inc. (1996), Rowntree v. Hunsucker (1992)
7 federal appellate · 47 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 Farley v. Goode · Keller v. Denny · McCormick v. Romans · Fenton v. Danaceau · Boone v. C. Arthur Weaver Co., Inc.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Part of our rationale in Farley was that as long as the physician-patient relationship continued as to a particular mal-ady or injury, then it could not be said that treatment had ceased.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“continuous and substantially uninterrupted course of examination and treatment”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if there existed a physician-patient relationship where the patient was treated for the same or related ailments over a continuous and uninterrupted course, then the plaintiff could wait until the end of that treatment to complain of any negligence which occurred during that treatment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.