Bryan v. Burt’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

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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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] plaintiff must establish not only that a defendant violated the applicable standard of care, and therefore was negligent, the plaintiff must also sustain the burden of showing that the negligent acts constituted a proximate cause of the injury.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fruiterman v. Granata · Bitar v. Rahman

2. “This case is unlike Hadeed v. Medic-24 , Ltd ., 237 Va. 277 , 377 S.E.2d 589 (1989) ; Brown , [ 229 Va. at 532 , 331 S.E.2d at 446 ]; and Whitfield v. Whittaker Mem'l Hosp. , 210 Va. 176 , 169 S.E.2d 563 (1969).... In each of those cases, holding proximate cause to be a jury issue, the plaintiff presented testimony to establish the nature of the treatment the decedent could have undergone had the diagnosis been correct and the probability that such treatment would have extended the decedent's life.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dixon v. Sublett

3. “[a]ffording the plaintiff benefit of all possible inferences, one could infer from the events of the 14th that, * if the condition had been properly diagnosed on the 13th, the decedent would have been referred to a surgeon who would have been responsible for her care. But the record is silent about the details of that care and its possible effect on the patient's health.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dixon v. Sublett