Watson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
346 F.2d 52 · 1965
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1985
13 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Shea v. Phillips · 108 Ga. App. 360 - Hayes v. Brown · 108 Ga. App. 309 - Hollis v. St. Joseph Infirmary, Inc
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the Watson case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a holding of the District Court that the United States was not liable for the alleged malpractice of a public health service doctor in the outpatient clinic of the public health service hospital of Savannah, Georgia. The action had alleged negligent failure of the doctor to diagnose a serious disease, asserting that the delay in treatment resulting from the failure to diagnose had caused the loss of the claimant’s leg. The Court of Appeals held that where there was no showing to any reasonable degree of medical certainty, that the loss of the leg could have been avoided, there can be no recovery. In the case at bar, there was no testimony by any of the experts showing that the child would have recovered if the diagnosis of aspirin poisoning had been made immediately and treatment begun instantaneously.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The only medical testimony adduced on the effect of the delay between February 24 and April 25 was that there was no causal relationship between the said delay and the failure of the bypass graft. The Court finds that had the bypass graft been attempted in February, 1960, there would have been, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, no greater likelihood of success of this operation, nor would there have been, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, any benefit derived by plaintiffs through the use of conservative treatment, even if same were to have been initiated in February of 1960.” (Emphasis added.)”
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.