Williams v. Edmondson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Pender v. McKee (1979), Collins v. State (1981)
6 federal appellate · 59 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 Carter v. Hartenstein · Burton v. Tribble · Wood v. Wood · Crossett Health Center v. Croswell · Sims v. Miller
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hereafter, all actions of contract or tort for malpractice, error, mistake, or failure to treat or cure, against physicians, surgeons, dentists, hospitals, and sanitaria, shall be commenced within two [2] years after the cause of action accrues. The date of the accrual of the cause of action shall be date of the wrongful act complained of, and no other time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The continuing tort theory best addresses itself to the General Assembly who has the responsibility for establishing the public policy on that issue. Needless to say the only thing alleged is that the appellees were negligent in reading the X-rays and that they were thereafter filed away. Thus by the allegations, the wrong, if any, was completed at the time of the reading. [ 257 Ark. at 848 and 849, 520 S.W.2d at 267 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Treat v. Kreutzer
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.