McCurdy v. Hatfield’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Coverstone v. Davies (1952), 37 Cal. 2d 465 - Huffman v. Lindquist (1951)
28 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 24 Cal. 2d 81 - Lawless v. Calaway · Lashley v. Koerber · Sekt v. Superior Court
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a jury could have found that defendant was negligent in departing from the standard of care required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“he did not act as a reasonable physician should under the circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“based on the standard of care used by physicians in the locality”
1 later decision 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.