Evers v. Dollinger’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 10 district · 149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America (1995), Ayers v. Township of Jackson (1987)
18 federal appellate · 10 district · 149 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Hamil v. Bashline · Dolson v. Anastasia · Buckelew v. Grossbard · Berman v. Allan
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his failure to exercise such care increases the risk of such harm.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"[p]laintiff was prepared to show that she suffered anxiety, emotional anguish and mental distress. These were attributable not solely to her having the cancer but also to the growth of the tumor during the time proper treatment was withheld and from the realization, following the confirmation of her malignancy, that defendant's delay in her treatment had increased the risk that she would again fall victim, perhaps fatally, to the disease. " Id. at 406 , 471 A.2d at 409 (emphasis supplied).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]n remand plaintiff should be permitted to demonstrate, within a reasonable degree of medical probability, that the seven months delay resulting from defendant’s failure to have made an accurate diagnosis and to have rendered proper treatment increased the risk of recurrence or of distant spread of plaintiff’s cancer, and that such increased risk was a substantial factor in producing the condition from which plaintiff currently suffers.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.