HURST BY HURST v. Dougherty’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2008
1 district · 8 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 Cardwell v. Bechtol · Truan v. Smith · In Re Estate of Elam · Ward v. United States · Mitchell v. Smith
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen there is more than one recognized method of diagnosis or treatment, and no one of them is used exclusively and uniformly by all practitioners of good standing, a physician [surgeon] is not negligent if, in exercising his best judgment, he selects one of the approved methods that later turns out to be unsuccessful, or one not favored by certain other practitioners”
1 later decision 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.