Harris v. Cacdac’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2016
10 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 Peoples Trust & Savings Bank v. Humphrey · Fall v. White · Dettman v. Sumner · Jones v. Angell · 170 Ind. App. 55 - Gibson v. Henninger
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the patient's] alleged negligence in failing to exercise her neck was wholly subsequent to [the physician's] alleged negligence in performing unnecessary surgery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Negligence on the part of the patient or of those having him in their charge, which occurs wholly subsequently to the physician's malpractice which caused the original injuries sued for, is not a complete defense to any recovery against the physician, but serves to mitigate the damages, preventing recovery to the extent the patient's injury was aggravated or increased by his own negligence, or those having his custody, although he is entitled to recover for the injuries sustained prior to his contributory negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sawlani v. Mills“simultaneous and co-operating with the fault of the defendant ... (and) enter into the creation of the cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sawlani v. Mills
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.