Coombes v. Florio’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
3 district · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Community National Bank v. Dawes · Morrison v. Olson · 117 Ill. 2d 507 - Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center · Augat, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the context of medical professionals, [the Supreme Judicial Court] has held that a doctor's duty of reasonable care, owed to a patient, includes the duty to provide appropriate warnings about side effects when prescribing drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“require[d] nothing ... not already required by his duty to his patient”
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.