247 Ga. App. 54 - Ketchup v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cruzan Ex Rel. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health · 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital · Bing v. Thunig · Logan v. Greenwich Hospital Ass'n
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a medical professional in Georgia ... must inform a patient of the material risks of a proposed treatment or procedure which are or should be known, and they must inform a patient of available alternatives to the proposed procedure or treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the absence of the common law doctrine of informed consent, the constitutionally protected liberty interests that individuals enjoy to make all decisions regarding their medical treatment is rendered meaningless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“will recognize the common law doctrine of informed consent”
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.