72 Md. App. 132 - Chew v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2015
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 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 Jacques v. First National Bank · Berkey v. Delia · 66 Md. App. 46 - Hamilton v. Ford Motor Credit Co. · DiGrazia v. COUNTY EXEC. FOR MONT. CTY. · Dietz v. Moore
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case sub judice, Chew has alleged that Dr. Meyer was obligated under the contract between them to complete certain insurance forms for Chew and to submit medical information concerning Chew to Chew’s employer. Formerly, such a contention might well have been summarily rejected, on the basis that a physician’s obligation to his patient ordinarily did not exténd beyond his duty to use his best efforts to treat and cure. The traditional scope of the contractual relationship between doctor and patient, however, has expanded over the years as a result of the prolifera tion of health and disability insurance, sick pay, and other employment benefits. Today, the patient commonly, and necessarily, enlists the aid of his or her physician in preparing claims forms for health and disability benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In determining whether a tort duty should be recognized in a particular context, two major considerations are: the nature of the harm likely to result from a failure to exercise due care, and the relationship that exists between the parties. Where the failure to exercise due care creates a risk of economic loss only, courts have generally required an intimate nexus between the parties as a condition to the imposition of tort liability. This intimate nexus is satisfied by contractual privity or its equivalent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One who undertakes, gratuitously or for consideration, to render services to another which he should recognize as necessary for the protection of the other's person or things, is subject to liability to the other for physical harm resulting from his failure to exercise reasonable care to perform his undertaking, if (a) his failure to exercise such care increases the risk of such harm, or ■ (b) the harm is suffered because of the other’s reliance upon the undertaking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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