Hills v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2007
21 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 Staloch v. Holm · McGraw v. Kerr · Chicago City Railway Co. v. Jennings · Sweeney v. Erving · Cederson v. Oregon Navigation Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * The substance of the doctrine taught by these cases is that if a regularly licensed physician with reasonable diligence employs the skill of which he is possessed in treating a surgical case, he is not liable for an error of judgment, and that the mere fact that an untoward result ensues is not in any sense evidence of negligence. There are so many elements combating the surgeon in his efforts to restore a patient to bodily soundness that he can do no more than exercise his best skill and judgment to accomplish the desired result. * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rayburn v. Day““It is always necessary in pleading negligence to allege that some act was negligently done, or that something that ought to have been done was omitted, but it is not necessary to set forth the particular facts that show the act or omission to have been negligent. * * * This, however, does not relieve the plaintiff from proving a particular act of negligence upon which she bases her right to recover, * #”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. Miller
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.