Schroeder v. Perkel’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 16 district · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Ayers v. Township of Jackson (1987), 31 Cal. 3d 220 - Turpin v. Sortini (1982)
5 federal appellate · 16 district · 114 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Portee v. Jaffee · Becker v. Schwartz · Berman v. Allan · Gleitman v. Cosgrove · Green v. Bittner
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The foreseeability of injury to members of a family other than one immediately injured by the wrongdoing of another must be viewed in light of the legal relationships among family members. A family is woven of the fibers of life; if one strand is damaged, the whole structure may suffer. The filaments of family life, although individually spun, create a web of interconnected legal interests. * * * * * * A physician's duty thus may extend beyond the interests of a patient to members of the immediate family of the patient who may be adversely affected by a breach of that duty. Here, the physicians had not only a duty to Ann, but an independent duty to Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder to disclose to them that Ann suffered from cystic fibrosis. The wrong allegedly committed by defendants was the failure to disclose material information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“confronted by tragedy respond magnificently and become exemplary parents [while] others do not. See, e.g., Becker v. Schwartz [ 46 N.Y.2d 401 , 413 N.Y.S.2d 895 ], 386 N.E.2d 807 (N.Y.Ct. App.1978) in which the parents subsequently put their mongoloid child up for adoption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“extend[s] beyond the interests of a patient to members of the immediate family of the patient who may be adversely affected by a breach of that duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.