324 So. 2d 21 - Coppage v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1999
11 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 Meyer v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co. · Uter v. Bone and Joint Clinic · Buford v. Kroger Co. · 119 So. 2d 649 - Rogers v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company · 316 So. 2d 7 - Delaune v. Davis
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"I have told you that the general standard to which the physician must conform is that degree of skill ordinarily employed under similar circumstances by the members of his profession in good standing in this or similar communities. In some instances that duty may extend to the responsibility to inform the patient of the dangers present in proposed treatment and the disclosure of material facts reasonably necessary to permit the patient to decide whether to consent to an operation or not. The consent of a patient is a prerequisite to a surgical operation, and the surgeon who performs an operation without his patient's consent, express or implied, is liable in damages for a battery. This rule extends to the performance of operations different in nature from that for which a consent was given. This rule is subject to exceptions in the event of an emergency requiring immediate action for the preservation of the life or health of the patient under circumstances in which it is impossible or impracticable to obtain the patient's consent or the consent of anyone authorized to assume such responsibility. The hospital, like all other employers in our society, may be held liable for the acts of negligence committed by its employees during the exercise of the functions for which they are employed. A patient is admitted to a hospital under an obligation owed to him by the hospital and its employees to provide such reasonable care and attention for his safety as his mental and physical co”
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.