Meek v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Butera v. District of Columbia (2001), Toy v. District of Columbia (1988)
4 federal appellate · 17 district · 55 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 Ryan v. United States · Morrison v. MacNamara · Rodgers v. Lawson · Quick v. Thurston · Kosberg v. Washington Hospital Center, Inc.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he plaintiff in a negligence action bears the burden of proof on three issues: 'the applicable standard of care, a deviation from that standard by the defendant, and a causal relationship between that deviation and the plaintiff's injury.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is a duty by law, clear common sense and medical standards to consult on an issue that is above a particular physician’s ken.” The court has made clear, however, that ”[t]he standard of care in medical malpractice cases must ordinarily be proven by expert testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nimetz v. Cappadona“the course of action that a reasonably prudent [professional] with the defendant's specialty would have taken under the same or similar circumstances.”
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.