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492 So. 2d 1018 - Howard v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
May 2012
most recently cited

16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2012

16 state decisions

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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 Southern Ry. Co. v. Dickson · McKinnon v. Polk · Orange v. Shannon · 439 So. 2d 113 - Thompson v. Lee · McClinton v. McClinton

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"In a medical malpractice case, in order to find liability there must be more than a mere possibility that the alleged negligence caused the injury. Williams v. Bhoopathi , 474 So.2d 690 , 691 (Ala. 1985). There must be some evidence that that negligence probably caused the injury. Orange v. Shannon , 284 Ala. 202 , 206 , 224 So.2d 236 , 239 (1969)."”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 554 So. 2d 1010 - Peden v. Ashmore · 585 So. 2d 1325 - Smith v. Medical Center East
  2. “'(Quoting Southern Ry. Co. v. Dickson , 211 Ala. 481 , 486 , 100 So. 665 , 669 (1924). See, e.g., McKinnon v. Polk , 219 Ala. 167 , 168 , 121 So. 539 , 540 (1929) (a case involving a suit for personal injuries allegedly caused by the negligence of the plaintiff's physician)).'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Byrd v. Martin · Bradford v. McGee
  3. “The plaintiff must adduce some evidence that the alleged negligence probably caused the injury or death:”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Sasser v. Connery · 582 So. 2d 512 - Brillant v. Royal

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.