Washburn v. Klara’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
2 district · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Koulizakis · Hadeed v. Medic-24, Ltd. · Lyons v. Grether · Pugsley v. Privette · Woodbury v. Courtney
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n unauthorized operation is a wrongful and unlawful act for which the surgeon will be liable in damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mayr v. Osborne“Lyons v. Grether, 218 Va. 630 , 633, 239 S.E.2d 103 , 105 (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he physician-patient relationship is a consensual one.”
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.