Kyte v. McMillion’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably General Motors Corp. v. Lahocki (1980), Morgan v. Cohen (1987)
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 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 Milks v. McIver · Derby v. Prewitt · Matter of Parchefsky v. Kroll Bros., Inc. · State Ex Rel. Cox v. Maryland Electric Railways Co. · Wichita County Lumber Co. v. Maer
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... as the result of and by reason of treatment rendered to the said EDNA ARLENE KYTE, infant, at UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL commencing on January 8,1967 and thereafter, specifically including but not limited to a transfusion of blood.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t would defy reason to hold the physician liable for injuries caused by the original wrongdoer which were not the consequences of his own careless-ness_”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hile we shall adhere to the rule that “there can be but one satisfaction for the same injury” it would be a gross distortion of both the English language and the facts of this case to say that Edna’s broken bones and the dyscrasia of her blood are the “same injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.