Weiser v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2004
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Wagner v. Foster · Southern Pine Lumber Co. v. Andrade · Hart v. Van Zandt · Wilson v. Scott · In Re Price's Estate
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.
““The duty of securing the patient’s informed consent rests on the doctor treating the patient or performing the operation. The operating room personnel should not be required to anticipate that the doctor in charge of the operation would fail to secure such consent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The consent, if any, given to a surgeon, who is to perform an operation, by his patient, must be construed to include consent for him to secure such assistance furnished by the hospital as he may require.””
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.