Robertson v. LaCroix’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2014
6 federal appellate · 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 Lashley v. Koerber · 159 Cal. App. 2d 664 - Wickoff v. James · Jarboe v. Harting · Martin v. Stratton · 133 Cal. App. 676 - Walter v. England
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We hold that the defendant’s statement that he ‘just made a mistake and got over too far’ is more than a mere statement of mistaken judgment; it constituted an admission of negligence during the performance of the surgery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sutton v. Calhoun“'warrant[s] the conclusion that a preponderance of the evidence discloses facts and circumstances establishing a reasonable probability that defendant's negligence was the proximate cause of the injury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“plaintiff sustained her burden of producing expert evidence establishing the medical standard in the community.”
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.