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← 563 P2D 15 - Adams v. Leidholdt

Adams v. Leidholdt’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
3
states following
June 2003
most recently cited

1 district · 14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2003

1 district · 14 state decisions

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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 73 Wash. 2d 476 - Douglas v. Bussabarger · Nettrour v. JC Penney Company · Hilzer v. MacDonald · St. Luke's Hospital v. Schmaltz · Weiss v. Axler

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “not liable for failure of the hospital employees to execute reasonable post-operative procedures for the treatment of his patients, and he may assume that the hospital's employees are competent to follow reasonable orders unless he has knowledge to the contrary.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “aware of [the] injury and knew or should have known that any alleged negligence occurred on or before the date of that injury.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “any legal theory in support of the trial court's judgment”
    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.