Shine v. Vega’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2022
13 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 Upjohn Company v. United States · Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · Canterbury v. Spence · Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz · Matter of Conroy
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the patient's right to informed consent is to have any meaning at all, it must be accorded respect even when it conflicts with the advice of the doctor or the values of the medical profession as a whole”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an essential aspect of the emergency exception to the requirement that a physician obtain a patient's informed consent before proceeding with treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is not the touchstone of a substituted judgment decision.”
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.