Feeley v. Baer’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2015
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz · Natanson v. Kline · Harnish v. Children's Hospital Medical Center · Pratt v. Davis · Halley v. Birbiglia
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may include the nature of the patient's condition, the nature and probability of risks involved, the benefits to be reasonably expected, ... the likely result of no treatment, and the available alternatives, including their risks and benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he risk that must exist in order to invoke informed consent principles in this case is a more than negligible risk of one or more infections that will have serious consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he evidence would not permit a finding that the risk to the child of serious infection was more than negligible.”
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.