Haggerty v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant (1972), Canterbury v. Spence (1972)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 37 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 Guinan v. Famous Players-Lasky Corp. · Yorke v. Taylor · Slimak v. Foster · Stetson v. French · Cutter v. Hamlen
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the negligence and harmful results are sufficiently obvious as to lie within common knowledge,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“without expert testimony laymen, including the jury, the trial judge, and [the appellate court], could not be, and are not, in a position to determine”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a case where there is certainty of a foreign object or dangerous physical organ left in a patient during an operation,”
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.