Crain v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Hondroulis v. Schuhmacher (1989), 1010 Potomac Associates v. Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc. (1984)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · M. A. P. v. Ryan · Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital · Canterbury v. Spence
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]ot all risks need be disclosed; only material risks must be disclosed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although expert testimony is not needed to establish the scope of the breach of the duty to inform one’s patients before treating them, ... expert testimony is necessary to establish the nature and degree of the risks of the proposed and alternate treatments ij; s¡s * * # sfc Although there was no expert testimony on the standard of care of a physician in obtaining informed consent from his patients, there was expert testimony on the actual risks involved. Thus, appellees established a prima facie case of medical malpractice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the patient's testimony is relevant on the issue of causation, the test of causation is objective.”
2 later decisions 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.