TONSIC Et Vir. v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Thompson v. Nason Hospital (1991), 298 Pa. Super. 92 - Pratt v. Stein (1982)
36 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 Flagiello v. Pennsylvania Hospital · McConnell v. Williams · Siidekum v. Animal Rescue League of Pittsburgh · Frank v. W. S. Losier Co., Inc. · Yorston v. Pennell
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. Hospitals, as well as the operating surgeons, owe a duty to the patient. If that duty is breached under circumstances from which a jury could reasonably conclude that the negligent party was at the same time the servant of two masters, both masters may be liable.”
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.