74 Md. App. 331 - Brown v. Meda’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Meda v. Brown (1990), Dover Elevator Co. v. Swann (1994)
28 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 Washington Homes, Inc. v. Interstate Land Development Co. · Attorney General v. Johnson · Duncan and Smith v. State · Shilkret v. Annapolis Emergency Hospital Ass'n · Thomas v. Corso
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judgment notwithstanding the verdict reversed; judgment entered for appellants [the Browns] on the verdict of the jury; appellee to pay costs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We think the general knowledge and experience of ordinary jurors, particularly when supported by expert medical testimony that such injuries are not risks ordinarily inherent to the surgical procedure in question, is such that the jurors may infer negligence from an unusual injury to a healthy part of the patient’s body remote from the area of the operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he testimony of plaintiff’s two experts ... rested upon inferences and thus constituted the kind of res ipsa loquitur evidence barred by Hans [v. Franklin Square Hosp., 29 Md.App. 329 , 347 A.2d 905 (1975), cert. denied, 276 Md. 744 (1976)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meda v. Brown
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.