Watson v. Clutts’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Wilkinson v. Vesey (1972), Green Ex Rel. Downs v. Duke Power Co. (1982)
3 federal appellate · 67 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 154 Cal. App. 2d 560 - Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees · Hunt v. Bradshaw · Di Filippo v. Preston · Davis Ex Rel. Allen v. Rigsby · Hawkins v. McCain
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he doctor's primary duty is to do what is best for the patient.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The decisions of this Court generally hold that liability in malpractice cases must be based on proof of actionable negligence. The doctrine [of] res ipsa loqmtur cannot be relied on to supply deficiencies in proof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.