268 Ga. App. 280 - Harrison v. Daly’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the injury begins immediately upon the misdiagnosis due to the pain, suffering, or economic loss sustained by the patient from the time of the misdiagnosis until the medical problem is properly diagnosed and treated. The misdiagnosis itself is the injury and not the subsequent discovery of the proper diagnosis; thus, the fact that the patient did not know the medical cause of his suffering does not affect the applicability of OCGA § 9-3-71 (a). 3”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 282 Ga. App. 667 - Stafford-Fox v. Jenkins

2. “the limited exception for subsequent injury cases . . . is confined to those in which the plaintiff remains asymptomatic for a period of time following the misdiagnosis”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCord v. Lee

3. “for statute of limitation[s] purposes, the `injury' occurred at the time of the alleged misdiagnosis. [Cits.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kaminer v. Canas