161 W. Va. 258 - Hill v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 199 W. Va. 706 - Gaither v. City Hospital, Inc. (1997), 184 W. Va. 317 - Stemple v. Dobson (1990)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 75 Wash. 2d 660 - Ruth v. Dight · 151 W. Va. 977 - Hundley v. Martinez · 149 W. Va. 783 - Morgan v. Grace Hospital, Inc. · 20 Utah 2d 199 - Christiansen v. Rees · Sharlene Hall and Ray Hall v. Dr. Ernest E. Musgrave and Dr. Charles F. Sowards
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ain, suffering and manifestation of the harmful effects of medical malpractice do not, by themselves, commence running of the statute of limitation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he statute of limitations for malpractice begins to run when plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the alleged malpractice.”
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.