Kelley v. Frederic’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2015
12 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 564 So. 2d 1346 - Palmer v. Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Inc. · 516 So. 2d 488 - Phillips by and Through Phillips v. Hull · Walker by and Through Walker v. Skiwski · Cole v. Wiggins
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no magical form to which a plaintiff's supporting expert opinion must conform, so long as its import is apparent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Without doubt, in a medical malpractice action a lay patient may give creditable testimony regarding purely factual matters and thus avoid summary judgment if those matters relate to material facts, notwithstanding the defendant physician's testimony to the contrary.”
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.