Jackson v. Qureshi’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]ny health care provider who is licensed to practice in Virginia shall be presumed to know the statewide standard of care in the specialty or field of practice in which he is qualified and certified. ... A witness shall be qualified to testify as an expert on the standard of care if he demonstrates expert knowledge of the standards of the defendant’s specialty and of what conduct conforms or fails to conform to those standards and if he has had active clinical practice in either the defendant’s specialty or a related field of medicine within one year of the date of the alleged act or omission forming the basis of the action.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. VA Board of Medicine & VA Department of Health Professions v. Leila Hadad Zackrison, M.D. · Holt v. Chalmeta

2. “'all pediatricians who care for acutely ill children, regardless of whether they are emergency department physicians or pediatric infectious disease physicians or general pediatricians should appreciate how pertussis can present in an infant.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holt v. Chalmeta

3. “and this Court is not free to impose one. Jackson , 277 Va. at 125 , 671 S.E.2d at 169 . The statute states simply that the proffered expert must have an”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holt v. Chalmeta