Miller v. Kennedy

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the bill incorporates the standard enunciated in Miller and otherwise reflects “existing law with respect to the doctrine of informed consent”
• “The scope of the duty to disclose information ... is measured by the patient’s need to know.”
• \The scope of the duty to disclose information . . . is measured by the patient's need to know.\
• “when a reasonable person in the patient’s position probably would attach significance to the specific risk in deciding on treatment, the risk is material and must be disclosed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smith v. Shannon
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-06-30· cited 220×
• Harbeson v. Parke-Davis, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-02-10· cited 197×
• Sard v. Hardy
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-11-09· cited 164×
• Harnish v. Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-08-13· cited 125×
• Cornfeldt v. Tongen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-12-30· cited 117×
• Largey v. Rothman
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-05-05· cited 96×
• Nixdorf v. Hicken
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-05-27· cited 87×
• Jones v. Porretta
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1987-05-01· cited 86×
• Bly v. Rhoads
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-03-05· cited 70×
• Watson v. Hockett
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-11-06· cited 64×
• Fergen v. Sestero
  Washington Supreme Court· 2015-03-12· cited 64×
• Vitale v. Henchey
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-04-20· cited 63×
• Woolley v. Henderson
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1980-08-28· cited 62×
• White v. Leimbach
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2011-12-08· cited 62×
• Hook Ex Rel. Estate of Summers v. Rothstein
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1984-04-16· cited 61×
• Quimby v. Fine
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-08-20· cited 60×
• Keogan v. Holy Family Hospital
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-12-31· cited 59×
• Leonard Harbeson, Jean Harbeson v. Parke Davis, Inc., and the United States of America
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-10-30· cited 56×
• Branom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-04-05· cited 56×
• Backlund v. University of Washington
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-04-08· cited 53×

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jerry W. Canterbury v. William Thornton Spence and the Washington Hospital Center, a Body Corporate
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-07-20· cited 455×
• Cobbs v. Grant
  California Supreme Court· 1972-10-27· cited 393×
• Wilkinson v. Vesey
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1972-10-20· cited 179×
• Pederson v. Dumouchel
  Washington Supreme Court· 1967-09-21· cited 139×
• Huffman v. Lindquist
  California Supreme Court· 1951-06-29· cited 126×
• Natanson v. Kline
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1960-08-05· cited 111×
• Douglas v. Bussabarger
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-03-28· cited 109×
• Trogun v. Fruchtman
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1973-05-21· cited 107×
• Siegler v. Kuhlman
  Washington Supreme Court· 1972-11-15· cited 94×
• Getchell v. Mansfield
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1971-10-20· cited 87×
• ZeBarth v. Swedish Hospital Medical Center
  Washington Supreme Court· 1972-07-20· cited 83×
• Greene v. Rothschild
  Washington Supreme Court· 1965-05-20· cited 77×
• Zukowsky v. Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 1971-09-02· cited 69×
• Brown v. Quick Mix Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-05-01· cited 67×
• Collins v. Meeker
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1967-03-04· cited 53×
• Horner v. Northern Pacific Beneficial Ass'n Hospitals, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1963-06-13· cited 51×
• Myers v. Harter
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-09-25· cited 48×
• Holt v. Nelson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1974-05-20· cited 44×
• Jacqueline's Washington, Inc. v. Mercantile Stores Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 40×
• Eckleberry v. Kaiser Foundation Northern Hospitals
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1961-02-21· cited 38×

Other cases named Miller v. Kennedy

8 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Miller v. Kennedy
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-01-16· cited 86×
• Miller v. Kennedy
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-12-21· cited 34×
• Miller v. Kennedy
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1900-02-07· cited 11×
• Miller v. Kennedy
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1932-06-18· cited 8×
• Miller v. Kennedy
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-10-22· cited 5×
• Miller v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 1974-08-30· cited 1×
• Miller v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1825-11-18
• Miller v. Kennedy
  Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court· 1928-10-06