Frost v. Brenner’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · Canterbury v. Spence · Nugent v. United States · Perna v. Pirozzi
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deemed `material' when a reasonable patient, in what the physician knows or should know to be the patient's position, would be `likely to attach significance to the risk or cluster of risks' in deciding whether to forego the proposed therapy or to submit to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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