Robinson v. Parrish’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2001
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Natanson v. Kline · 136 Ga. App. 737 - Young v. Yarn · 139 Ga. App. 457 - Parr v. Palmyra Park Hospital, Inc. · 162 Ga. App. 376 - Butler v. Brown
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether the Georgia Voluntary Sterilization Act, OCGA Sec. 31-20-2, requires a physician to disclose any possible risks and complications associated with a sterilization procedure before a patient can validly consent to that procedure. 12 "2. If the answer to Question 1 is in the affirmative, are Appellants nonetheless conclusively bound by consents such as were executed in the circumstances of the present case where those documents were merely signed by Appellants without any accompanying explanation by the Appellee/doctor, or may they litigate the issue of valid consent?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Parrish“A consent to surgical or medical treatment which discloses in general terms the treatment or course of treatment in connection with which it is given and which is duly evidenced in writing and signed by the patient or other person or persons authorized to consent pursuant to the terms of this chapter shall be conclusively presumed to be a valid consent in the absence of fraudulent misrepresentations of material facts in obtaining the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Judge Cardozo had before him a case of trespass, not mere negligence, namely unauthorized surgery. However, the doctrine has been expanded to cases in which the patient authorized the treatment but was not informed of the risks. 2 Today, the doctrine appears to be applicable in negligence cases (i.e., a failure to warn constitutes negligence) as well as in cases in which battery is alleged. 3 26”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Robinson v. Parrish
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.