421 So. 2d 294 - Wiley v. Karam’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2008
11 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · Guillory v. Buller · Babin v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance · 385 So. 2d 849 - Babin v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co. · State v. LaRue
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The degree of knowledge or skill possessed or the degree of care ordinarily exercised by physicians or dentists licensed to practice in the state of Louisiana and actively practicing in a similar community or locale and under similar circumstances; and where the defendant practices in a particular specialty and where the alleged acts of medical negligence raise issues peculiar to the particular medical specialty involved, then the plaintiff has the burden of proving the degree of care ordinarily practiced by physicians or dentists within the involved medical specialty. (2) That the defendant either lacked this degree of knowledge or skill or failed to use reasonable care and diligence, along with his best judgment in the application of that skill, and (3) That as a proximate result of this lack of knowledge or skill or the failure to exercise this degree of care the plaintiff suffered injuries that would not otherwise have been incurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n determining whether or not a physician or dentist failed to exercise reasonable care and diligence, the views and opinions of expert witnesses who are members of his profession and who are qualified to testify on the subject are very persuasive, although not controlling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brock v. Newman
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.