Ricks v. Budge’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “[a] physician who leaves a patient in a critical stage of a disease without reason or sufficient notice to enable the patient to secure another physician is subject to liability to that patient. To prove abandonment, a plaintiff patient must show that the abandonment occurred during a critical stage of the patient's [ ... ] treatment. Even if a jury could determine that defendants refused to treat [the plaintiff] because her bill was past due, expert evidence would be required to establish that [the plaintiff] was at a critical stage of her medical care when defendants allegedly withdrew medical treatment. Consequently, without expert testimony ... an abandonment cause of action cannot be proven.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Newman v. Sonnenberg

2. “A physician has the right to withdraw from a case, but if the case is such as to still require further medical or surgical attention, he must, before withdrawing from the case, give the patient sufficient notice so the patient can procure other medical attention if he desires.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Newman v. Sonnenberg

3. “is well settled that a physician or surgeon, upon undertaking an operation or other case, is under the duty, in the absence of an agreement limiting the service, of continuing his [or her] attention, after the first ... treatment, so long as the case requires attention.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Newman v. Sonnenberg