Van Zee v. Witzke’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
December 2009
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company · Stewart v. Rudner · Groseth International, Inc. v. Tenneco, Inc. · Pickering v. Pickering · Shamburger v. Behrens
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A doctor may, although he seldom does, contract to cure a patient, or to accomplish a particular result, in which case the doctor may be liable for breach of contract when he does not succeed. In the absence of such an express agreement, the doctor does not warrant or insure either a correct diagnosis or a successful course of treatment....”
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.