Chambers v. Bunker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Greyhound Lines, Inc., a Corporation, Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Douglas H. Huber · Dickerson v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Barber v. M. F. A. Milling Co. · Nutz v. Shepherd · Nichols v. Blake
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Your verdict must be for the plaintiff Mary Jines if you believe: First, defendant failed to hospitalize Mary Jines on March 1, 1979 and failed to perform culture and sensitivity studies and X-rays on that date and failed to treat her with large doses of intravenous antibiotics on that date and Second, defendant was thereby negligent, and Third, such negligence directly caused or directly contributed to cause damage to plaintiff Mary Jines.” (Our emphasis.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jines v. Young“become independent and the result cannot be envisioned to be the natural and probable consequence of the primary cause or one which ought to have been anticipated.”
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.