657 So. 2d 808 - Day v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2015
13 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 Logan v. Greenwich Hospital Ass'n · 424 So. 2d 758 - Hicks v. State · Wall v. Stout · 466 So. 2d 856 - Hall v. Hilbun · Somer v. Johnson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a competent physician is not liable per se for a mere error in judgment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“good faith error in judgment or honest error in judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The [cjourt finds that the verdict in this case against the [djefendants, Bettye Logan, F.N.P., and Green Tree Family Medical Clinic, PLLC was against the overwhelming weight of the evidence and that[,j therefore, the [djefendant’s [mjotion for [jjudgment [njotwithstand-ing the [vjerdict should be granted. The evidence in this case demonstrated conclusively that the [pjlaintiff and [pjlaintiffs deceased withheld vital history and medical information on each of the occasions that he was seen at Green Tree Family Medical Clinic. In 2005, [pjlaintiff and [pjlaintiffs deceased disavowed having ever passed out or lost consciousness, when the record demonstrated to the contrary. In August 2006, at the time of the [PPE] and physical examination, [pjlaintiff and [pjlain-tiffs deceased again withheld vital history and medical information, despite the fact that Lonnie Magee, Jr. had been seen by a cardiologist for assessment of his serious heart problems on May 30, 2006 — only 86 days before the PPE at Green Tree (August 24, 2006). Finally, at the time of the pre-participation physical evaluation of Nurse Practitioner, Bettye Logan at Green Tree Family Medical Clinic on August 7, 2007[,j the record is clear that critical information was withheld from Nurse Practitioner Logan. All of the physician experts at trial, specifically including the [pjlain-tiffs singular expert, Dr. [Christopher] Leggett, testified that the history obtained from the patient was critically important in a pre-pa”
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.