Cole v. Wiggins’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2017
18 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 444 So. 2d 358 - Brown v. Credit Center, Inc. · 457 So. 2d 941 - Dennis v. Searle · 475 So. 2d 439 - Clayton v. Thompson · 419 So. 2d 1327 - Square D Co. v. Edwards · 470 So. 2d 1049 - Hammond v. Grissom
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a medical malpractice action, negligence cannot be established without medical testimony that the defendant failed to use ordinary skill and care.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]llows for summary judgment where there is no genuine issue of material fact, and where the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]atters which are within the common knowledge of laymen are exceptions to the rule that expert medical testimony is required.”
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.