Sharples v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably State v. White (2005), Comeau v. Rupp (1992)
2 federal appellate · 26 district · 26 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Durflinger v. Artiles · Bacon v. Mercy Hosp. of Ft. Scott · Bair v. Peck · Mays v. Ciba-Geigy Corp.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xcept where the lack of reasonable care or the existence of proximate cause is apparent to the average [layperson] from common knowledge or experience, expert testimony is required in medical malpractice cases to establish the accepted standard of care and to prove causation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) The following actions shall be brought within two (2) years: “(7) An action arising out of the rendering of or failure to render professional services by a health care provider, not arising on contract. “(c) A cause of action arising out of the rendering of or the failure to render professional services by a health care provider shall be deemed to have accrued at the time of the occurrence of the act giving rise to the cause of action, unless the fact of injury is not reasonably ascertainable until some time after the initial act, then the period of limitation shall not commence until the fact of injury becomes reasonably ascertainable to the injured party, but in no event shall such an action be commenced more than four (4) years beyond the time of the act giving rise to the cause of action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plaintiff bears the burden of proving the necessary causation and normally in medical malpractice cases, this court has described the duty in general terms, merely stating there must be a causal connection between the negligent act and the injury or that the act caused or contributed to the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burnette v. Eubanks
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.