52 Ill. App. 3d 1017 - Burrow v. Widder’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 60 Ill. 2d 418 - Borowski v. Von Solbrig · 63 Ill. App. 2d 481 - Scardina v. Colletti · 19 Ill. App. 3d 1055 - Foster v. Englewood Hospital Ass'n · 42 Ill. App. 2d 96 - Gault v. Sideman · 93 Ill. App. 2d 461 - Lundahl v. Rockford Memorial Hospital Ass'n
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except in certain limited situations not pertinent here, the appellate decisions of this State have held that the plaintiff, by use of expert testimony, must establish the standards of care against which the defendant doctor’s conduct is to be measured. The plaintiff must then further prove by affirmative evidence that, judged in light of these standards, the doctor was unskillful or negligent and that his want of skill or care caused the injury to the plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“testimony that the decision to proceed with surgery was not in accordance with good medical practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“deviated from an accepted medical standard in proceeding to surgery”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.