Jacobs v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2012
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 Mahoney v. Doerhoff Surgical Services, Inc. · Defino v. Civic Center Corp. · Spruill v. Barnes Hospital · Mullins v. Miller
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.
“In any action against a health care provider for damages for personal injury or death on account of the rendering of or failure to render health care services, the plaintiff or his attorney shall file an affidavit with the court stating that he has obtained the written opinion of a legally qualified health care provider which states that the defendant health care provider failed to use such care as a reasonably prudent and careful health care provider would have under similar circumstances and that such failure to use such reasonable care directly caused or directly contributed to cause the damages claimed in the petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vitale v. Sandow“The gravamen of all plaintiff’s complaints, for which he seeks damages against Dr. Wolff and nurse Unser, are related to breaches of duty in rendering rehabilitative care. Plaintiff had no other relationship with Dr. Wolff or nurse Unser except for rehabilitation under the prescription of his cardiologist. Defendants’ activities at the rehabilitative cen ter were related only to providing services to persons, including plaintiff, who required a form of health care.... On these facts § 538.225 applies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The legal question is whether the gravamen of plaintiff’s claims for damages consists of claims against Dr. Wolff and nurse Unser in their capacity as health care providers. Given the relationship of the parties and the true claim for damages relates to wrongful acts of a health care provider, we find § 538.225 RSMo 1986 applies regardless of the characterization of the claims by plaintiff.”
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.