Wright v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Your verdict must be for the plaintiff, Sam Bradford if you believe: First, defendant BarnesCare either: failed to diagnose and treat a rectus femorus tear by March 26, 1999, or failed to refer plaintiff Sam Bradford to an orthopedist by March 26, 1999, or, failed to order rest and immobilization on March 19,1999, or failed to order rest and immobilization on March 26,1999, and Second, defendant BarnesCare in any one or more of the respects submitted in paragraph First, was thereby negligent, and Third, such negligence directly caused or directly contributed to cause damage to plaintiff Sam Bradford.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bradford v. BJC CORPORATE HEALTH SERVICES

2. “'except where the want of skill or lack of care is so apparent as to require only common knowledge and experience to understand and judge it.' " Super v. White , 18 S.W.3d 511 , 516 (Mo. App. 2000) (citation omitted). Moreover, "[w]hen the plaintiff relies on expert testimony to provide evidence as to causation when there are two or more possible causes, that testimony must be given to a reasonable degree of medical certainty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Love v. Waring

3. “In any action against a health care provider for damages for personal injury or death arising out of the rendering of or the failure to render health care services, no plaintiff shall recover more than three hundred fifty thousand dollars per occurrence for noneconomic damages from any one defendant as defendant is defined in subsection 2 of this section.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cook v. Newman