Stowe v. McHugh’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batick v. Seymour · Mather v. Griffin Hospital · Santopietro v. City of New Haven · 123 Wash. 2d 15 - Adcox v. Children's Orthopedic Hospital & Medical Center · Pool v. Bell
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order to prevail in a medical malpractice action, the plaintiff must prove (1) the requisite standard of care for treatment, (2) a deviation from that standard of care, and (3) a causal connection between the deviation and the claimed injury . . . Generally, expert testimony is required to establish both the standard of care to which the defendant is held and the breach of that standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“possesses sufficient training, experience and knowledge as a result of practice or teaching in a related field of medicine, so as to be able to provide such expert testimony as to the prevailing professional standard of care in a given field of medicine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n a medical malpractice action, expert testimony is required to establish the standard of professional care to which the defendant is held . . . .' Mather v. Griffin Hospital , 207 Conn. 125 , 130-31 , 540 A.2d 666 (1988).”
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.