Whittington v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 466 So. 2d 856 - Hall v. Hilbun · 516 So. 2d 488 - Phillips by and Through Phillips v. Hull · Herrington v. Spell · 471 So. 2d 385 - Reikes v. Martin · 234 So. 2d 905 - Ross v. Hodges
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very medical procedure involves risks.... [N]o court has ever required a physician to disclose to á patient every possible risk of a medical procedure. Instead, from among all possible risks of a procedure, only those which are material must be disclosed in order to obtain informed consent to the procedure. This begs the question: [w]hat must be done (in the legal sense) to establish what are — and are not — the material risks of a particular procedure?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Yager
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.