Truan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Kramer v. Lewisville Memorial Hospital (1993), Kilpatrick v. Bryant (1993)
6 federal appellate · 28 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 D. M. Rose & Co. v. Snyder · 42 Tenn. App. 195 - McAmis v. Carlisle · 49 Tenn. App. 310 - City of Chattanooga v. Ballew · 10 Smith & H. 163 - Casenburg v. Lewis · 53 Tenn. App. 218 - Ball v. Mallinkrodt Chemical Works
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury's finding that [petitioner] did not exercise that degree of care and diligence required of him in providing medical care to [respondent] and that his failure to do so either materially increased the chances of or accelerated [respondent's] death.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In reviewing a case where the judgment is based on the jury’s verdict, we do not weigh the evidence to determine the preponderance thereof, nor do we decide the credibility of witnesses ... Our review is limited to a determination of whether there is any material evidence to support the verdict ...” [ 578 S.W.2d 73, at 74 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pendleton v. Evetts“the record contain[ed] evidence of malpractice on the part of petitioner which proximately caused or accelerated the death of [respondent].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boburka v. Adcock
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.