Sinclair by Sinclair v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Montgomery v. Bazaz-Sehgal (2002), 456 Pa. Super. 750 - Nogowski v. Alemo-Hammad (1997)
67 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 Kremer v. Grant · Morena v. South Hills Health System · Gray v. Grunnagle · Smith v. Yohe · Brannan v. Lankenau Hospital
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] physician or surgeon need not disclose all known information; however, the physician or surgeon is required to advise the patient of those material facts, risks, complications and alternatives to surgery that a reasonable person in the patient’s situation would consider significant in deciding whether to have the operation. Thus, the patient is assured that he will be provided with “all the material facts from which he can make an intelligent choice as to his course of treatment, regardless of whether he in fact chooses rationally.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the physician's attempt to use forceps is part of one event: the natural delivery process. Thus, the physician's use of forceps to facilitate natural delivery is not a distinct surgical or operative procedure and, as a result, does not require additional consent to use the forceps.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where competent medical authority is divided, a physician will not be held responsible if, in the exercise of his or her judgment, he or she follows a course of treatment advocated by a considerable number of medical authority in good standing in his or her 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.