Smith v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2013
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Cornfeldt v. Tongen · Hanson v. Homeland Insurance Co. of America · Anderson v. Florence · Silver v. Redleaf · Todd v. Eitel Hospital
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, as in Silver v. Redleaf, supra, plaintiff had the burden to prove, by expert testimony, that “ * * * it was more probable that death resulted from some negligence for which defendant was responsible than from something for which he was not responsible.” 292 Minn. 465 , 194 N.W.2d 273 [citations omitted]. Such proof is absent from this case. Instead, the record would have compelled the jury to speculate as to whether earlier diagnosis or different treatment would have resulted in a cure. The trial court could not permit this, and thus had no alternative but to grant defendant’s motion for a dismissal.”
2 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.