514 So. 2d 871 - Dobbs v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2007
19 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 Quillen v. Quillen · 378 So. 2d 706 - Turner v. Peoples Bank of Pell City · Pappa v. Bonner · Holt v. Godsil · 460 So. 2d 156 - Tuscaloosa Orthopedic Appliance Co. v. Wyatt
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Dobbs did not offer any expert testimony to establish the standard of care and conduct that he alleged Smith deviated from. The record is void of any evidence that Dobbs's subsequent vision problems were the result of the surgery performed by Smith. In order to establish a physician's negligence, the plaintiff must offer expert medical testimony as to the proper practice, treatment, or procedure. [Citations omitted.] Dobbs failed to establish a standard of conduct and care by which Smith's conduct could be gauged. Further, he failed to establish that his injuries were proximately caused by a deviation from such standard. "”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A directed verdict is proper where there is a complete absence of pleading or proof on an issue or issues material to a cause of action. Shellnutt v. Randolph County Hospital , 469 So.2d 632 (Ala.Civ.App. 1985). . . . When a directed verdict motion is made, the evidence should be viewed in the light most favorable to the opposing party, and if a reasonable inference can be drawn against the moving party, then the trial court should deny the motion. Turner v. People's Bank of Pell City , 378 So.2d 706 (Ala. 1979).'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“physicians . . . in the same general neighborhood, and in the same general line of practice,”
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.