DiFranco v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2015
23 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 Wilkinson v. Vesey · Smith Development Corp. v. Bilow Enterprises, Inc. · Wall v. Stout · Schenck v. Roger Williams General Hospital · Marshall v. Tomaselli
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““cannot be held liable, not even if in the exercise of that judgment he or she has made a mistake as to the course of treatment to be taken. As long as the physician or nurse exercising the applicable degree of care he or she may choose between differing but accepted methods of treatment and not be held liable.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“so long as the treatment chosen was [appropriate] based on the information then available to a reasonably prudent doctor in like circumstances.”
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.