Harvey v. Silber’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Cooper v. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Inc. (1971), Hicks v. United States (1966)
20 federal appellate · 34 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Fraser v. Jennison · People v. Millard · People v. Thacker · Gile v. Hudnutt · Johnson v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“testimony in the record that there was a probability that an operation would have saved [the decedent's] life,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“to show that to a certainty surgical intervention would have saved [the deceased's life]. It is sufficient if the plaintiff by a preponderance of the evidence has satisfied you that surgical intervention would with reasonable probability have saved his life.”
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.