Dean v. Seeman’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2007
1 district · 16 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 McGraw v. Kerr · Zoterell v. Repp · Farrell v. Haze · Craghead v. McCullough
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The implied contract between the surgeon and patient is not to restore it to its natural condition, but to use that degree of diligence and skill which is ordinarily possessed by the average of the members of the profession in similar localities, giving due consideration to the state of the art at the time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanson v. Harris“Physicians and surgeons are not to be held responsible for results, but only for the kind of service rendered by them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Block v. McVay
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.