Van Dusen v. Stotts’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably McIntosh v. Melroe Co. (2000), Boggs v. Tri-State Radiology, Inc. (2000)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 United States v. Kubrick · Johnson v. St. Vincent Hospital, Inc. · Collins v. Day · Miller v. Ah Robins Company Inc · Williams v. State
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable possibility, if not a probability”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“they discover the malpractice and resulting injury or facts that, in the exercise of reasonable diligence, should lead to the discovery of the malpractice and the resulting injury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Booth v. Wiley · Rogers v. Mendel“[eJvents short of a doe-tor's diagnosis can provide a plaintiff with evidence of a reasonable possibility that another's”
5 later decisions 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.