Bloskas v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. (1984), People v. Medina (1985)
4 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Natanson v. Kline · Nettrour v. JC Penney Company · 30 Colo. App. 357 - Stauffer v. Karabin · People v. Madson · Mallett v. Pirkey
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) One who negligently gives false information to another is subject to liability for physical harm caused by action ■taken by the other in reasonable reliance upon such information, where such harm results (a) to the other, or (b) to such third persons as the actor should expect to be put in peril by the action taken. (2) Such negligence may consist of failure to exercise reasonable care (a) in ascertaining the accuracy of the information, or (b) in the manner in which it is communicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] physician who operates on a patient's body without the patient's consent, or who performs an operation different from that to which the patient consented, commits a battery and is liable for damages resulting therefrom, notwithstanding the exercise of reasonable care in performing the operative procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Medina“In case of doubt as to what a person has done, it may be considered more probable that he has done what he has been in the habit of doing, than that he acted otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holley v. Huang
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.