Eis v. Chesnut’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2014
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
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 Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital · Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · Canterbury v. Spence · Pharmaseal Laboratories, Inc. v. Goffe · Gerety v. Demers
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“average person could reasonably infer from common knowledge that Dr. Chesnut should have known that the protruding pin was the cause of Mrs. Eis’s pain”); Mascarenas v. Gonzales, 83 N.M. 749 , 497 P.2d 751, 753-54 (Ct.App.1972) (holding expert testimony unnecessary to prove chiropractor negligently broke four of patient’s ribs during an adjustment, because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no evidence... that the operation was performed in an emergency, or that Mrs. Eis was confused for such a long period of time as to preclude obtaining her consent to the operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lounsbury v. Capel“unconscious or otherwise incapable of consenting”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lounsbury v. Capel
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.