Boxberger v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 498 So. 2d 713 - Hastings v. Baton Rouge General Hospital (1986), Christian v. Gray (2003)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 Gunning v. Cooley · Thomas v. Corso · 73 Wash. 2d 476 - Douglas v. Bussabarger · Lashley v. Koerber · Largess v. Tatem
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where there is competent evidence, without such testimony, to establish the cause with reasonable certainty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where an injury is patent, objective rather than subjective, the plaintiff is competent to testify as to the injury, the treatment received therefor, and the reaction of such treatment, and this testimony is sufficient for the jury to render a verdict ... and no expert medical testimony is necessary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen a physician's lack of care has been such as to require only common knowledge and experience to understand and judge it, expert testimony is not required to establish that care.”
2 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.