Roy C. Haven, Jr., a Minor by His Next Friend v. Judson G. Randolph, M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
494 F.2d 1069 · 1974
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably Morrison v. MacNamara (1979), O'NEIL v. Bergan (1982)
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 29 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 Wilkerson v. McCarthy · Wabisky v. D. C. Transit System, Inc. · Rodgers v. Lawson · 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a physician has committed a blunder so egregious that a layman is capable of comprehending its enormity. An example is the case of a surgeon who leaves a sponge in an incision after the removal of a kidney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of JN
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.