91 Ill. App. 2d 310 - Newman v. Spellberg’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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

1. ““To us it is plain common sense and common knowledge, that when a patient is being held to assure that his torso is not moved while a foreign object such as a gastroscope is inserted into his innermost organs, injury would probably be sustained when an excessive or unnatural pressure was put upon his torso by lifting it against the force attempting to hold it in place. Here the uncontradicted testimony is that the sharp pain was first felt at the time plaintiff’s torso was so lifted. It is a reasonable inference that it was at that time that the injury occurred.” Newman, 91 Ill. App. 2d at 322 , 234 N.E.2d at 158 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 252 Ill. App. 3d 389 - Schindel v. Albany Medical Corp.

2. ““Except in certain limited situations not pertinent here, the appellate decisions of this State have held that the plaintiff, by use of expert testimony, must establish the standards of care against which the defendant doctor’s conduct is to be measured. The plaintiff must then further prove by affirmative evidence that, judged in light of these standards, the doctor was unskillful or negligent and that his want of skill or care caused the injury to the plaintiff.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 71 Ill. App. 3d 831 - Stevenson v. Nauton