Nathans v. Diamond’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Jenkins v. State (2008), Hankla v. Postell (2013)
46 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 280 Ga. App. 280 - Cotten v. Phillips · 285 Ga. App. 577 - MCG Health, Inc. v. Barton · 283 Ga. App. 195 - Mays v. Ellis · 281 Ga. App. 617 - Abramson v. Williams
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Was licensed by an appropriate regulatory agency to practice his or her profession in the state in which such expert was practicing or teaching in the profession at such time; and (2) In the case of a medical malpractice action, had actual professional knowledge and experience in the area of practice or specialty in which the opinion is to be given as the result of having been regularly engaged in: (A) The active practice of such area of specialty of his or her profession for at least three of the last five years, with sufficient frequency to establish an appropriate level of knowledge, as determined by the judge, in performing the procedure, diagnosing the condition, or rendering the treatment which is alleged to have been performed or rendered negligently by the defendant whose conduct is at issue ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“possessed the requisite knowledge and experience under OCGA § 24-9-67.1(c)(2),”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.