Woosley v. Dunning’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2019
2 district · 5 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 McDonough v. National Hospital Ass'n · Jaffe v. City of New York · 61 Misc. 2d 717 - Tinney v. Neilson's Flowers, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"they would not have informed the jury of the important qualification *** that 'where the negligent conduct of the actor (defendant) creates or increases the foreseeable risk of harm through the intervention of another force, and is a substantial factor in causing this harm, such intervention is not a superseding cause.' "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one who negligently injures another person is liable for damages not only for the original injury, but also for all additional injury caused by a * physician's treatment, even if negligent, so long as the treatment was provided in good faith effort to diagnose, cure or alleviate the original injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the plaintiff's evidence established as a matter of law that the diagnostic tests were an intervening force which constituted a superseding cause of [the decedent's] death.”
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.