Avret v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably McDowell v. Brown (2004), Gooding v. St. Francis Xavier Hospital (1997)
6 federal appellate · 23 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 Shea v. Phillips
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A witness with such skill, knowledge or experience in a field or calling as to be able to draw an inference that could not be drawn by the average layman may be qualified as an expert witness.' Agnor, Georgia Evidence, § 9-5. `Medical experts are persons possessing technical and peculiar knowledge, and any person learned in medical or physiological matters is qualified to testify as an expert thereon, even though he is not a medical practitioner [as defined in OCGA § 43-34-20 (3)].' 32 CJS 336, Evidence, § 546 (92). `A nurse may or may not be qualified to state an inference ... according to the extent of his or her training and experience.' 32 CJS 345, Evidence, § 546 (92).”
2 later decisions 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.