Kuttner v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1983 · most notably 157 Ga. App. 770 - Stephen W. Brown Radiology Associates v. Gowers (1981), 169 Ga. App. 132 - Hyles v. Cockrill (1983)
23 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 Rush v. Atlanta Railway & Power Co. · 27 Ga. App. 494 - Davis v. Carter · Radcliffe v. Maddox · Gramm v. Boener · Macon Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Crane
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The true rule is that the reasonable degree of care and skill prescribed in the Code is not such as is ordinarily employed by the profession in the locality or community. It is a question of fact for the jury to determine what is reasonable care and skill under the circumstances, and in so determining the jury may consider the degree of care and skill practiced by the profession generally in the locality, or the community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person professing to practice surgery or the administering of medicine for compensation must bring to the exercise of his profession a reasonable degree of care and skill. Any injury resulting from a want of such care and skill shall be a tort for which a recovery may be had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this standard of care . . . is defined in law to be such . . . as . . . is ordinarily employed by the profession generally in this locality”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.