Hansen v. Isaak’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Waggoner v. Midwestern Development, Inc. (1967), Bartak v. Bell-Galyardt & Wells, Inc. (1980)
4 federal appellate · 52 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 Christie v. Callahan · Sweeney v. Erving · 23 Cal. 2d 330 - Trindle v. Wheeler · Midwest Oil Co. v. City of Aberdeen · Barger v. Chelpon
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law requires that a physician shall have the degree of learning and skill ordinarily possessed by physicians of good standing practicing in the same community and negligence of a doctor consists of his failure to conform to the standard of care which the law establishes for members of his profession, that is, the obligation to have and to use the skill and care which members of his profession commonly possess and exercise under similar circumstances. Warwick v. Bliss, 46 S.D. 622 , 195 N.W. 501 [ (1923) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mousseau v. Schwartz“[W]henever a thing which has caused an injury is shown to have been under the control and management of the defendant charged with negligence, and the occurrence is such as in the ordinary course of events does not happen if due care has been exercised, the fact of the accident itself is deemed to afford sufficient evidence to support a recovery in the absence of any explanation by the defendant tending to show that the injury was not due to his want of care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fleege v. Cimpl“"[W]hile the result alone is not, in itself, evidence of negligence, yet same may nevertheless be considered, together with other facts and circumstances disclosed by the evidence in a given case in determining whether or not such result is attributable to negligence or want of skill."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kostel v. Schwartz
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.