Thomas v. Dootson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2014
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Welch v. Epstein · Player v. Thompson · Green v. Lilliewood · Pederson v. Gould · Bultman v. Barber
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“never been any real dispute that a defective surgical drill resulted in the burn to [the patient's] lip.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the proper operation of a surgical drill is not something within the lay knowledge of jurors.”
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.