Collins v. Thakkar’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Stevenson v. Hamilton Mutual Insurance Co. (1996), Collins v. Covenant Mutual Insurance Co. (1992)
1 federal appellate · 35 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 Johnson v. St. Vincent Hospital, Inc. · Boswell, Inc. v. Harkins · Raymundo v. Hammond Clinic Ass'n · 177 Ind. App. 29 - Joy v. Chau · Glisson v. Loxley
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unrelated to the promotion of a patient's health or the provider's exercise of professional expertise, skill, or judgment.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he test to determine whether a claim sounds in medical malpractice is 'whether the claim is based on the provider's behavior or practices while acting in his professional capacity as a provider of medical services.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A case sounds in ordinary negligence [rather than medical negligence] where the factual issues are capable of resolution by a jury without application of the standard of care prevalent in the local medical community. By contrast a claim falls under the [MMA] where there is a causal connection between the conduct complained of and the nature of the patient-health care provider relationship.”
4 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.