Downey v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2011
17 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. · Magee v. Blue Ridge Professional Building Co. · Baker v. City of Kansas City · Nappier v. Kincade · Goff v. St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not allege any facts tending to support the legal conclusion of an agency relationship between the doctor and the hospital.” Id. at 556 . Abuse of trial court discretion in ruling on a motion for a more definite statement was not in issue in Downey , thus is not controlling in this appeal. 9 . Rule 84.04(d) requires that”
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.