40 Colo. App. 74 - Mudd v. Dorr’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Martinez v. Badis (1992), Melville v. Southward (1990)
33 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 8 Cal. 2d 82 - Ales v. Ryan · Hilzer v. MacDonald · Hamilton v. Hardy · 30 Colo. App. 357 - Stauffer v. Karabin · Hestbeck v. Hennepin County
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when, during the course of surgery, a foreign object such as a sponge is lost in a patient, a prima facie case of negligence is made out under the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ochoa v. Vered · Ochoa v. Vered
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.