Pharmaseal Laboratories, Inc. v. Goffe’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 200 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1989), Logan v. Greenwich Hospital Ass'n (1983)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 200 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 Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · 58 Wis. 2d 269 - Shier v. Freedman · First National Bank Ex Rel. Huckleby v. Nor-Am Agricultural Products, Inc. · Cervantes v. Forbis · Buchanan v. Downing
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f negligence can be determined by resort to common knowledge ordinarily possessed by an average person, expert testimony as to standards of care is not essential. [citations omitted.] Such evidence includes lay testimony regarding nontechnical mechanical acts by the physician, as we have here. [Emphasis added.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[T]he party opposing the motion is to be given the benefit of all reasonable doubts in determining whether a genuine issue exists. If there are such reasonable doubts, summary judgment should be denied. A substantial dispute as to a material fact forecloses summary judgment."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“can be provided by expert testimony of the knowledge, skill and care ordinarily used by reasonably well-qualified doctors of the same field of medicine practicing under similar circumstances, and this includes testimony from doctors from the same or other localities.”
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.