Stokes v. Leung’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 144 Wis. 2d 223 - Schuster v. Altenberg (1988), Otis v. Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co. (1993)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Marx v. Hanthorn · 31 Tenn. App. 12 - Spivey v. St. Thomas Hospital · 29 Tenn. App. 327 - Poole v. First Nat. Bank of Smyrna · 62 Tenn. App. 424 - McCay Ex Rel. McCay v. Mitchell · German v. Nichopoulos
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prime responsibility to afford reasonably safe facilities and reasonable attendance to the patient’s needs to prevent self injury lies with the hospital and not the physician. The physician is not in constant attendance. The hospital is supposed to be.”
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.