Boyanton v. Reif’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2012
5 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 Runyon v. Reid · Woodall v. Chandler Material Co. · Karriman v. Orthopedic Clinic · Champion v. Kieth · Reinhart & Donovan Co. v. Williamson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“".... a physician employed to treat a person impliedly warrants ... that he will use his best judgment in the exercise of his skill in diagnosing the condition and in treating the patient.... If he possesses ordinary learning, skill and experience and exercises ordinary care in applying the same, he is not responsible for mistakes in judgment."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A medical practitioner] is not responsible for a mistake in judgment unless that mistake is so gross that it makes the professional conduct substandard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Franklin v. Toal“The question in professional malpractice suits is not whether a physician has made a mistake, but whether he has used 'ordinary care'....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Franklin v. Toal
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.