Haddock v. Arnspiger’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. v. Armstrong (2004), Garland Community Hospital v. Rose (2004)
2 federal appellate · 56 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas))
Relationships
Relies on Mobil Chemical Company v. Bell · McCray v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. · Jones v. Tarrant Utility Co. · Marathon Oil Co. v. Sterner · Nevauex v. Park Place Hospital, Inc.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The common-law doctrine of res ipsa loqui-tur shall only apply to health care liability claims against health care providers or physicians in those cases to which it has been applied by the appellate courts of this state as of the effective date of this sub-chapter.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Res ipsa loquitur” means the thing speaks for itself. In answering this question, you may infer negligence by a party but are not compelled to do so if you find that (1) the character of the occurrence is such that it would ordinarily not happen in the absence of negligence and (2) the instrumentality causing the occurrence was under the management and control of the party at the time that the negligence, if any, probably occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[an] exception to [both these rules] has been recognized where the nature of the alleged malpractice and injuries are plainly within the common knowledge of laymen, as where the negligence alleged is in the use of mechanical instruments, operating on the wrong portion of the body, or leaving surgical instruments or sponges within the body”
3 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.