Wiggins v. Piver’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably 360 So. 2d 1331 - Ardoin v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co. (1978), Shilkret v. Annapolis Emergency Hospital Ass'n (1975)
32 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 Hunt v. Bradshaw · Watson v. Clutts · Sims ex rel. Sims v. Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance · Sims v. Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. · Starnes v. Taylor
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.
““A physician or surgeon who undertakes to render professional services must meet these requirements: (1) He must possess the degree of professional learning, skill and ability which others similarly situated ordinarily possess; (2) he must exercise reasonable care and diligence in the application of his knowledge and skill to the patient’s case, and (3) he must use his best judgment in the treatment and care of his patient. [Citations omitted.] If the physician or surgeon lives up to the foregoing requirements he is not civilly liable for the consequences. If he fails in any one particular, and such failure is the proximate cause of injury and damage, he is liable.””
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.