Thompson v. Cooper

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that treating physicians may offer opinion on causation based on “subjectively applying their practical experience to the particular facts of [plaintiff’s] injury”
• concluding “treating physicians were experience-based experts” and not subject to reliability and relevance requirements under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• acknowledging that causation could be inferred from symptoms beginning after an accident
• holding failure to instruct jury on issue central to theory of case was erroneous
• clarifying that medical expert witnesses’ opinion testimony on causation may be helpful to jury when opinions are formed by experts subjectively “applying their practical experience to the particular facts of [the] injury”
• leaving the admissibility of evidence of Thompson's alleged drug abuse and FDA approval of Thompson's surgery \to the future discretion of the superior court\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Christensen v. Alaska Sales & Service, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-10-10· cited 92×
• In Re the Necessity for the Hospitalization of Jacob S.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2016-11-18· cited 65×
• Cooper v. Thompson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2015-06-26· cited 18×
• City of Hooper Bay v. Bunyan
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2015-09-11· cited 14×
• John E. v. Andrea E.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2019-07-19· cited 8×
• Government Employees Insurance Co. v. Gonzalez
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2017-08-25· cited 7×
• Sosa de Rosario v. Chenega Lodging
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2013-03-22· cited 6×
• Pralle v. Milwicz
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-05-09· cited 6×
• Todeschi v. Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo, LLC
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2017-04-28· cited 6×
• Christine Culliton, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Courtney Culliton v. Hope Community Resources, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2021-07-30· cited 6×
• Long v. Arnold
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2016-12-16· cited 5×
• HDI-Gerling America Insurance Company v. Carlile Transportation Systems, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2018-08-24· cited 5×
• Martinez-Morales v. Martens
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2016-02-19· cited 1×
• State v. Thompson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2019-01-25· cited 1×
• Rockwell v. Knott
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2013-08-13· cited 1×
• State of Alaska, DFCS, Office of Children's Services v. Brett Lane
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2024-02-09· cited 1×
• Janice Elaine Bragaw v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2021-02-26

Cites

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

• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael
  Supreme Court· 1999-03-23· cited 8,651×
• State v. Coon
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1999-03-05· cited 132×
• Rockstad v. Erikson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2005-06-10· cited 90×
• Hayes v. Xerox Corp.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1986-04-25· cited 76×
• Marron v. Stromstad
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2005-11-10· cited 76×
• L.D.G., Inc. v. Brown
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2009-07-10· cited 62×
• Clary Insurance Agency v. Doyle
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-11-21· cited 61×
• Reich v. Cominco Alaska, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2002-10-04· cited 37×
• Emil Perzinski v. Chevron Chemical Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1974-11-15· cited 34×
• Searfus v. Northern Gas Company
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-07-31· cited 34×
• Jackson v. American Equity Insurance Co.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2004-04-02· cited 32×
• Fletcher v. South Peninsula Hospital
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2003-06-13· cited 31×
• Coulson v. Marsh & McLennan, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1999-02-26· cited 29×
• Miller v. Phillips
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1998-06-12· cited 23×
• Pagenkopf v. Chatham Electric, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-08-24· cited 23×
• Laidlaw Transit, Inc. v. Crouse Ex Rel. Crouse
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2002-08-30· cited 23×
• Cameron v. CHANG-CRAFT
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2011-04-15· cited 22×
• Mahan v. Arctic Catering, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2006-04-21· cited 22×
• Kavorkian v. Tommy's Elbow Room, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1985-01-25· cited 21×