Tillman v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2019
6 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 Borne v. Brumfield
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Whether a physician was negligent in making a diagnosis must be determined in light of conditions existing and facts known at the time thereof, and not in the light of knowledge gained through subsequent developments ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“lacked the degree of knowledge or skill or failed to exercise reasonable care and diligence, along with his best judgment in the application of that skill.”
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.