96 Wis. 2d 349 - Rod v. Farrell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably 113 Wis. 2d 550 - Hansen v. AH Robins, Inc. (1983), Aicher Ex Rel. LaBarge v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund (2000)
6 federal appellate · 36 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 Fehrman v. Smirl
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Surgical techniques have changed rapidly over the years.... Advances such as the transplanting of a heart and kidneys in the 1950's and 1960's or the reattachment of a severed hand or arm were unthought of many years ago. Future advances, particularly, in teaching hospitals, will be too extraordinary to even predict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.