Jensen v. Linner’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1990 · most notably Christy v. Saliterman (1970), Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado v. Sharp (1987)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Connolly v. Nicollet Hotel · Vonault v. O'Rourke · Cofran v. Swanman · 60 N.J. Super. 240 - Becker v. Eisenstodt · Wallstedt v. Swedish Hospital
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This rule is subject to the exception that expert testimony is not necessary where the nature of the alleged negligent conduct is such that inferences to be drawn from the facts are within the range of common experience of men and juries are equally as capable of drawing inferences as experts. . . . In such a case, where the mode of treatment has been shown, the practical commonsense of the jury will enable them to determine that the injury or failure of cure is owing to unskillful or negligent treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f the circumstances supporting a theory of negligence are of greater weight than evidence supporting the theory of no negligence, then it becomes a question of fact for the jury * * *. [A] person is not required to prove his theory of negligence by testimony so clear as to exclude every other possible theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rick v. Worden
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.