Donaldson v. Maffucci

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[W]here among physicians or surgeons of ordinary skill and learning more than one method of treatment is recognized as proper, it is not negligence for the physician or the surgeon to adopt either of such methods . . . .”
• cases also relied on by Mrs. Jones

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

54 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Incollingo v. EWING
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-25· cited 315×
• Hader v. Coplay Cement Mfg. Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-03-19· cited 147×
• Gray v. Grunnagle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-24· cited 138×
• Smith v. Yohe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-10-09· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Duffey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-14· cited 69×
• Passarello v. Grumbine
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-07· cited 69×
• Winschel v. Jain
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-01· cited 61×
• Speck v. Finegold
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-18· cited 58×
• Grubb v. Albert Einstein Medical Center
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 54×
• Hasenei v. United States
  D. Maryland· 1982-04-08· cited 48×
• Thierfelder v. Wolfert
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-28· cited 47×
• Joyce v. Boulevard Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Center, P.C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-07· cited 40×
• Reliance Universal, Inc. v. Ernest Renda Contracting Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-10· cited 39×
• Newell v. Corres
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-06-26· cited 38×
• Lonnie F. Titchnell and Ella Titchnell v. United States
  Third Circuit· 1982-05-28· cited 36×
• Reichman v. Wallach
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-29· cited 33×
• Hedden v. Lupinsky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-01-02· cited 33×
• Florence Nash McPhee v. John Reichel, Jr., M.D.
  Third Circuit· 1972-05-23· cited 31×
• K.H. v. Kumar, S., M.D
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-25· cited 31×
• Robert v. Chodoff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 30×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. Kerr
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1913-02-24· cited 63×
• Robinson v. Wirts
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-12-29· cited 49×
• Moodie v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-05-21· cited 45×
• Finnin v. Neubert
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-05-24· cited 39×
• Remley v. Plummer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1922-07-13· cited 37×
• McCandless v. McWha
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1853-07-01· cited 32×
• Hencken v. Bethlehem Municipal Water Authority
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-03-20· cited 23×
• Seburn v. Luzerne & Carbon County Motor Transit Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-01-12· cited 22×
• Albert v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1916-03-06· cited 21×
• Karavas v. Poulos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-04-18· cited 19×
• Tyson v. Baizley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1908-02-28· cited 8×