Sewell v. Doctors Hosp.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 813 So. 2d 303 - Coleman v. Deno (2002), Hutchinson v. Patel (1994)
84 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 403 So. 2d 26 - DeBattista v. Argonaut-Southwest Ins. Co. · 378 So. 2d 182 - Cashio v. Baton Rouge General Hospital · Wyble v. St. Luke General Hosp. · 532 So. 2d 501 - Pitre v. Hosp. Serv. Dist. No. 1 · State ex rel. Monroe v. Whitley
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any act, or treatment performed or furnished, or which should have been performed or furnished, by any health care provider for, to, or on behalf of a patient during the patient's medical care, treatment or confinement.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage“[1] whether the particular wrong is `treatment related' or caused by a dereliction of professional skill, [2] whether the wrong requires expert medical evidence to determine whether the appropriate standard of care was breached, and [3] whether the pertinent act or omission involved assessment of the patient's condition.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] health care provider's liability may arguably be included under the Act when a patient is injured in a fall from the hospital bed because the provider's employee was negligent under the particular circumstances in failing to raise the sides, but the provider's liability may not be included under the Act when the patient is injured in a fall because the same bed collapsed from metallurgical defect, unless the provider caused the defect or knew or should have known of the defect and neglected to repair it. Id., at fn. 6.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.