Wright v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Colonial Penn Insurance v. Guzorek (1997), Blake v. Calumet Construction Corp. (1996)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Funk v. Bonham · Burke v. Capello · Vergara Ex Rel. Vergara v. Doan · Longfellow v. Vernon · 148 Ind. App. 508 - Klinger v. CAYLOR
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[JJuries do not need an expert to help them conclude, say, that it is malpractice to operate by mistake on the wrong limb.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]s in other tort actions, a plaintiff alleging medical malpractice must show that the defendant, owing a duty to the plaintiff, violated a standard of reasonable care, causing injury to the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Desai v. Croy · McKain v. Bisson“is sufficient to raise an inference of negligence, thereby obviating the need for an affidavit to that effect from an expert in order for”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boston v. Gyn, Ltd.
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.