Sponaugle v. Pre-Term, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Washington v. Washington Hospital Center (1990), Psychiatric Institute of Washington v. Allen (1986)
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 28 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 Clay v. United States · Mitchell v. Woodworth · Moss v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Christie v. Callahan · McMahon v. Young
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a medical malpractice case, where legal and factual causation are major issues, there may well be a sound basis for the requirement that expert medical testimony be given in terms of 'reasonable medical certainty.' However, in some situations, such as where factual causation is indirect or the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applies, that standard might be unduly restrictive.”
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.