Miller v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A physician commits an act of negligence when the physician fails to exercise the degree of reasonable care and skill in providing health care to a patient as would a reasonably careful, skillful and prudent physician acting under the same or similar circumstances. The negligence may consist of doing something that the physician should not have done under the circumstances, or the failure to do something that the physician should have done under the circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baumgart Ex Rel. Baumgart v. DeFries

2. “'lelven if the instruction is a correct statement of the law, is supported by the evidence, and is not covered by the other instructions, we will not reverse unless the failure to give the instruction substantially and adversely affects the rights of the complaining party so as to quite likely have affected the result'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wallace v. Rosen