Lawson v. Conaway’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Rowland v. Harrison (1990), 173 W. Va. 75 - McAllister v. Weirton Hospital Co. (1983)
1 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Sayre's v. Harpold · Sweeney v. Baker · Hawker v. B. &. O. R. R. · Gates v. . Preston · Leighton v. Sargent
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All of the authorities admit that the patient may at any time discharge or dismiss his physician, and from that moment such physician is relieved from responsibility. It would be very strange if the law were otherwise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Harris
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.