Pedersen v. Zielski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably John's Heating Service v. Lamb (2002), Evans Ex Rel. Kutch v. State (2002)
42 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 United States v. Kubrick · 85 Ill. 2d 146 - Witherell v. Weimer · 39 Cal. 3d 892 - Gutierrez v. Mofid · 25 Cal. 2d 226 - Pashley v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · 32 Cal. 3d 426 - Brown v. Bleiberg
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wlhere the plaintiff actually attempts an inquiry, the fairer question in our view, is to ask whether his inquiry was reasonable[;] [where there is no attempt, however, there is no choice but to put the question in the abstract.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“are genuine issues of material fact ... must be resolved at an evidentiary hearing”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The physician-patient relationship is one of trust. Because the patient lacks the physician’s expertise, the patient must rely on the physician for virtually all information about the patient’s treatment and health. A physician therefore undertakes, not only to treat a patient physically, but also to respond fully to a patient’s inquiry about his treatment, i.e., to tell the patient everything that a reasonable person would want to know about the treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Archer · Korman v. Mallin
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.