McCaffrey v. Puckett’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 466 So. 2d 856 - Hall v. Hilbun · 471 So. 2d 358 - Hardy v. Brantley · 740 So. 2d 854 - Sheffield v. Goodwin · 487 So. 2d 1320 - Miss. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Garrett · West v. SANDERS CLINIC FOR WOMEN, PA
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“each physician has a duty to use his or her knowledge and therewith treat through medical recovery, each patient, with such reasonable diligence, skill, competence, and prudence as are practiced by minimally competent physicians in the same specialty or general field of practice throughout the United States, who have available ... to them the same general facilities, services, equipment and options.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is our general rule that in a medical malpractice action negligence cannot be established without medical testimony that the defendant failed to use ordinary skill and care.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o prove a prima facie case of medical malpractice, the plaintiff (1) after establishing the doctor-patient relationship and its attendant duty, is generally required to present expert testimony (2) identifying and articulating the requisite standard of care and (3) establishing that the defendant physician failed to conform to the standard of care. In addition, (4) the plaintiff must prove the physician's noncompliance with the standard of care caused the plaintiff's injury, as well as proving (5) the extent of the plaintiff's damages.”
2 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.