Haddock v. Arnspiger’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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

1. “Defendants specially except and object to paragraph V of Plaintiff’s Fourth Amended Petition wherein Plaintiff attempts to invoke the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur (a) because there has been no dangerous instrumentality alleged, (b) because this is not the type of procedure to which the doctrine of res ipsa loqui-tur should apply according to the limitation set out in Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 4590i § 7.01, and (c) because Plaintiffs own expert has testified that a perforation can occur without any negligence on the part of the doctor who is doing the limited colonoscopy ... thus demonstrating that the injury complained of is not of the sort that only occurs as a result of negligence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Haddock v. Arnspiger