227 Ga. App. 149 - Walker v. Melton’s Empirical Analysis

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27 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen a misdiagnosis results in subsequent injury that is difficult or impossible to date precisely, the statute of limitation runs from the date symptoms attributable to the new injury are manifest to the plaintiff.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Amu v. Barnes · 288 Ga. App. 875 - Cleaveland v. Gannon

2. “Summary judgment should be granted when there is no genuine issue of material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. OCGA§ 9-11-56 (c). Our review of a grant of summary judgment is de novo, and we view the evidence, and all reasonable conclusions and inferences drawn from it, in the light most favorable to the nonmovant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 277 Ga. App. 256 - Ward v. Bergen

3. “the injuries sued for arose after the date of the misdiagnosis that caused them,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 288 Ga. App. 875 - Cleaveland v. Gannon