4 Wash. App. 899 - Hunter v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2006
13 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
Relies on Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital · 154 Cal. App. 2d 560 - Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees · Woods v. Brumlop · 1 Cal. App. 3d 790 - Berkey v. Anderson · 70 Wash. 2d 304 - Grannum v. Berard
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reasons why the physician withheld facts are a matter of defense. Evidence that the patient was not uninformed or that the facts undisclosed were immaterial or that disclosure might be harmful would properly be matters of defense. It is at this juncture that evidence of medical standards of disclosure might become relevant and material.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * [A] physician's duty to disclose is not governed by the standard practice of the physicians' community, but is a duty imposed by law which governs his conduct in the same manner as others in a similar fiduciary relationship * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demers v. Gerety“Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body; and a surgeon who performs an operation without his patient's consent commits an assault, for which he is liable in damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demers v. Gerety
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.