Todd v. Planned Parenthood’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 68th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Morrison v. Chan · Nelson v. Krusen · Russell v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. · Rose v. Doctors Hospital · Witty v. American General Capital Distributors, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Health care liability claim" means a cause of action against a health care provider or physician for treatment, lack of treatment, or other claimed departure from accepted standards of medical care or health care or safety which proximately results in injury to or death of the patient, whether the patient's claim or cause of action sounds in tort or contract. (emphasis added)”
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.