28 Colo. App. 358 - Smith v. Curran’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Hamilton v. Hardy (1976), Montana Deaconess Hospital v. Gratton (1976)
1 district · 36 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 Starnes v. Taylor · Roberts v. Young · Weiss v. Axler · Brown v. Hughes · Kaster v. Woodson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ Wle have repeatedly held that ... 'the fact that there was a lamentable result is not of itself evidence of negligence on the part of the defendants'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the negligence of the physician is so apparent or the matter under investigation so simple that laymen are equally as able as experts to pass upon it . . . expert testimony is not required as part of the prima facie case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If no standard is established by the testimony of physicians, there is no standard for the determination of the ultimate question of the physician's negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. Hardy
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.