Taber v. Roush’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 334th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner · EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson · Miller v. Bike Athletic Co. · City of Brownsville v. Alvarado
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I believe that much of [the literature] was motivated in no small part by concerns over the amount of litigation involving brachial plexus injuries and the lack of a viable defensive theory in the face of the only generally accepted cause of those injuries: excessive traction by the delivering physician.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.