Devine v. Roche Biomedical Laboratories, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2022
7 district · 12 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 Gammon v. Osteopathic Hospital of Maine, Inc. · Chapman v. Rideout · Fowler v. Boise Cascade Corp. · L. Ray Packing Co. v. Commercial Union Insurance · Estate of Althenn v. Althenn
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiff who fails to prove that the defendant violated a duty of care owed to the plaintiff cannot recover, whether the damage is emotional, physical, or economic.”
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.