Phifer v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1976
9 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 Mitchell v. Hindman · 30 Cal. App. 523 - Priestley v. Stafford · Hunter v. Stewart · Mitchell v. Hindman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * a physician does not impliedly contract that his treatment will be successful, or that ill and serious results may not follow as a direct result of such treatment; but by implication he guarantees that he possesses that reasonable degree of learning and skill possessed by others of his profession, and that he will exercise reasonable and ordinary skill in the application of such knowledge to accomplish the purpose for which he is employed. * * ⅜ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Govin v. Hunter
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.