Cervantes v. Forbis’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Pharmaseal Laboratories, Inc. v. Goffe (1977), Mantz v. Follingstad (1972)
3 federal appellate · 84 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 24 Cal. 2d 81 - Lawless v. Calaway · Woods v. Brumlop · Southern Union Gas Co. v. Briner Rust Proofing Co. · McLain v. Haley · Srader v. Pecos Construction Company
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a physician or surgeon can be held liable for malpractice in the treatment of his patient, he must have departed from the recognized standards of medical prac tice in the community, or must have neglected to do something required by those standards.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“plaintiff has a duty, when faced by the motion for summary judgment, to show the court that a fact issue is present. If the opposite party has sustained his burden to establish the absence of a fact issue, but there is available additional proof to the contrary, it is the duty of the party moved against to so apprise the court.”
1 later decision 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.