Walden v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2018
1 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Hicks v. United States · Nugent v. Nugent's Ex'r · McCahill v. New York Transportation Co. · Burk v. Foster · Johnson v. Vaughn
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no evidence of record to suggest that favorable results would have been probable even had a tumor been found and immediately removed.... [I]t may not be said that ... there existed a reasonably probable medical chance of reversing or ameliorating the paralytic condition”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wiley v. Montgomery“argument that any chance of recovery, no matter how remote, entitles the plaintiff in a malpractice suit to have the issue of proximate cause submitted to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kemper v. Gordon
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.