Dobbins v. Clifford’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “that by following the rationale in Flanagan , the rule can be extended to cover the facts in the instant case since the same fundamental factors are present in each. They are: an act of malpractice committed internally so that discovery is difficult; real evidence of the malpractice in the form of the hospital record is available at the time of suit; professional diagnostic judgment is not involved, and there is no danger of false claims. 330 N.Y.S.2d at 746-747 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schum v. Bailey