Silver v. Redleaf’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Sorenson v. St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center (1990), City of Eveleth v. Ruble (1974)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 Manion v. Tweedy · Moeller v. Hauser · Swanson Ex Rel. Swanson v. Chatterton · Miller v. Raaen · Yates v. Gamble
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“both to state the standard of medical care and the treatment recognized by the medical community and to establish that the defendant physician in fact departed from that standard, it being settled that a physician is not responsible for the consequences of an honest mistake or error of judgment in his diagnosis or treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shea v. Esensten“it was more probable that [the injury] resulted from some negligence for which defendant was responsible than from something for which he was not responsible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.