Sousa v. Chaset’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 Powers v. Carvalho · Marshall v. Tomaselli · L'Etoile v. Director of Public Works · Montuori v. Narragansett Electric Co. · Young v. Park
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.
“plaintiff's urological condition, and the treatment he received or should have received for the same, were matters beyond the obvious common knowledge of the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Absent extraordinary circumstances ... a non-party expert cannot be compelled to give opinion testimony against his or her will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In a negligence case, a plaintiff must 'establish a standard of care as well as a deviation from that standard.'”
1 later decision 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.