240 Ga. App. 613 - Anderson v. Houser’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Bradley Center, Inc. v. Wessner · Hiser v. Randolph · McKinney v. Schlatter · 186 Ga. App. 697 - Peace v. Weisman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a doctor who has agreed to be on-call makes himself available to be consulted regarding a patient's condition, that fact alone does not indicate that the doctor has agreed to establish a doctor-patient relationship with any patient who presents herself to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here can be no liability for malpractice in the absence of a physician-patient relationship. Doctor-patient privity is essential because it is this relationship which is a result of a consensual transaction that establishes the legal duty to conform to a standard of conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Indeed, there may be many circumstances where an on-call physician who is consulted about a particular patient does not feel competent to diagnose and treat the patient.”
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.