6 Smith & H. 86 - Haskins v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably O'Neill v. Kiledjian (1975), 29 Tenn. App. 327 - Poole v. First Nat. Bank of Smyrna (1946)
6 federal appellate · 25 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e think the jury, as men of ordinary experience and affairs, were qualified to draw their own inferences, and to reach their own conclusion as to what course other physicians of requisite skill and ability would have taken, without the aid of the testimony of experts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Runnells v. Rogers
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.