Sly v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2008
23 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 Tefft v. Wilcox · Pettigrew v. Lewis & Willard · McCurdy v. Baker · Morris v. Vanlaningham
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be said here that, while some palpable conditions may be understood and stated by a layman, the questions whether there was a fracture of the bone, or whether the articular surfaces of the joint were normal, . . . and whether, in the condition of the finger, appellant had given the patient skillful and proper treatment, should not be determined on the testimony of unskilled witnesses.” (p. 148.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.