Roy v. Guillot’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The testimony of a specialist in the particular field involved is entitled to more weight than that of a nonspecialist, and, as a general rule, greater weight should be accorded to the testimony of trained and experienced surgeons than to that of nonsurgeons or general practitioners. There is a rule of thumb, applicable in certain circumstances, that where there is a conflict in the testimony of medical experts, the court will give greater weight to that of the treating physician. So, the factual or opinion evidence of a physician who has first-hand knowledge of the case is entitled to greater weight than that of a physician who testifies without such knowledge; the opinion of the attending physician should be given greater weight than that of a physician who examined the employee only on one or two occasions; and the testimony of the physician first examining an injured person is usually accorded greater weight than the testimony of one more remotely removed therefrom.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crenshaw v. Firemen's Fund Indemnity Co.