King v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Logan v. Greenwich Hospital Ass'n (1983), Keaton Ex Rel. Foster v. GREENVILLE HOSP. (1999)
37 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 Brune v. Belinkoff · Small v. Howard · Green v. Lilliewood · Rucker v. High Point Memorial Hospital, Inc. · Bessinger v. De Loach
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The degree of care which must be observed is of course that of an average, competent practitioner acting in the same or similar circumstances. In other words, local practice within geographic proximity is one, but not the only factor to be considered. No longer is it proper to limit the definition of the standard of care which a medical doctor or dentist must meet solely to the practice or custom or a particular locality, a similar locality, or a geographic area."”
5 later decisions 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.