McConnell v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Flagiello v. Pennsylvania Hospital (1965), Collins v. Hand (1968)
22 federal appellate · 98 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 25 Cal. 2d 486 - Ybarra v. Spangard · Rodgers Et Ux. v. Saxton · Siidekum v. Animal Rescue League of Pittsburgh · Fire Insurance Patrol v. Boyd · 8 Cal. 2d 82 - Ales v. Ryan
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t can readily be understood that in the course of an operation in the operating room of a hospital, and until the surgeon leaves that room at the conclusion of the operation, ... he is in the same complete charge of those who are present and assisting him as is the captain of a ship over all on board, and that such supreme control is indeed essential in view of the high degree of protection to which an anaesthetized, unconscious patient is entitled....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * [I]f operating surgeons were not to be held liable for the negligent performance of the duties of those then working under them, the law would fail in large measure to afford a means of redress for preventable injuries sustained during the course of such operations." 65 A.2d 243 at 247 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“As far as the evidence discloses it was defendant [physician], not the hospital, who assigned the interne [sic] to the task of inserting the silver nitrate solution into the infant's eyes, and, even if in the performance of that act he [the intern] may also have been serving the hospital, that fact would not change his legal status with respect to defendant, since a borrowed employee may, in the performance of a given act, be serving the interests of both his general employer and his temporary master.”
2 later decisions 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.