Santos v. Kim’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Vasa v. Compass Medical, P.C. (2010), Koltin v. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2004)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 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 Mullins v. Pine Manor College · Little v. Rosenthal · Kapp v. Ballantine · Commonwealth v. Gibson · Lyon v. Morphew
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every action for malpractice, error or mistake against a provider of health care shall be heard by a tribunal consisting of a single justice of the superior court, a [dentist] licensed to practice [dentistry] in the commonwealth[,] . . . and an attorney authorized to practice law in the commonwealth . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Attar“[§] 60B does not require the existence of a doctor-patient relationship as a predicate for its application,”
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.