King v. Sowers’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Melendez (2000), Ulloa v. Qsp, Inc. (2006)
29 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 Brown v. Koulizakis · Noll v. Rahal · Hing-Har Lo v. Burke · Rogers v. Marrow by Marrow · Banner v. Commonwealth
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.
“[t]he relevant issue ... is whether the treatment rendered violated the applicable standard of care and whether any such breach of the standard of care was a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bitar v. Rahman
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.