Siggers v. Barlow’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[although the risk of harm to [the patient] as created by Dr. Barlow’s initial misdiagnosis was great, this risk of harm did not materialize until 7 to 14 days after the injury occurred. Up until this post-injury window period closed, surgery could have been performed on the wrist to restore it to virtually its previous normal condition. An adequate amount of time thus existed for Dr. Robertson to notify [the patient] of the misdiagnosis before the risk of harm reached an emergency stage (i.e., before the risk of harm became a resulting harm).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Copsey v. Park

2. “"the degree of danger and the magnitude of the risk of harm, the character and position of the third person who is to take the responsibility, his knowledge of the danger and the likelihood that he will or will not exercise proper care, his relationship to the plaintiff or to the defendant, [and] the lapse of time."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 721 So. 2d 152 - Looney v. Davis

3. “(1) Except as stated in Subsection (2), the failure of a third person to act to prevent harm to another threatened by the actor's negligent conduct is not a superseding cause of such harm.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 721 So. 2d 152 - Looney v. Davis