Roukounakis v. Messer’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
April 2012
most recently cited
2 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 100 Wash. 2d 26 - Smith v. Shannon · Brune v. Belinkoff · Harnish v. Children's Hospital Medical Center · Precourt v. Frederick · Burnet v. Spokane Ambulance
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a physician owes to his patient the duty to disclose in a reasonable manner all significant medical information that the physician possesses or reasonably should possess that is material to an intelligent decision by the patient.... The information a physician reasonably should possess is that information possessed by the average qualified physician ....”
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.