Willis v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.3d 1244 · 2010
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · 51 Cal. 3d 120 - Moore v. Regents of University of California · Canterbury v. Spence · Carlyle Fortran Trust v. NVIDIA Corp. · McConnell v. Williams
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.
“[t]he notion was that the surgeon acted as special employer who borrowed nurses and other attendants from their general employer-the [charitable] hospital-and thus became liable for their negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n an attempt to fill this gap, courts began using the 'borrowed servant' doctrine to impose liability on the surgeon for negligence that occurred in the operating room.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“finds particular application where it is part of the actor's business or profession to give information upon which the safety of the recipient or a third person depends.”
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.