Roberts v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Rivera v. Prince George's County Health Department (1994), Willis Ex Rel. Willis v. Wu (2004)
2 district · 24 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 Mozingo v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. · 101 N.C. App. 578 - Mozingo Ex Rel. Thomas v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. · Easter v. Lexington Memorial Hospital, Inc. · 186 Mich. App. 300 - Hill v. Kokosky · Carolina Home Builders, Inc. v. Armstrong Furnace 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue of whether a doctor/patient relationship may exist when the patient has not been examined or treated by the doctor is novel to this Court. However, under facts similar to those here, other jurisdictions have concluded that the relationship was not established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is undisputed that Dr. Hayes neither examined Roberts nor reviewed his file. An examination was made impossible by Roberts’ departure from the hospital. Based upon these circumstances, we hold that no doctor/patient relationship existed....”
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.