Young v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Kaminer v. Canas (2007), Amu v. Barnes (2008)
34 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 38 N.C. App. 50 - Ballenger v. Crowell · Farley v. Goode · Kern Ex Rel. Kern v. St. Joseph Hospital, Inc. · Lane v. Lane · Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn, P.C. v. Frame
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an action for medical malpractice shall be brought within two years after the date on which an injury or death arising from a negligent or wrongful act or omission occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Williams,] who suffers from diabetes, first sought, treatment from Dr. Young for swelling and pain in her left ankle and foot in September 1995. In June 1996, Dr. Young prescribed a lymph edema foot pump. In response to appellee’s repeated complaints about her foot, Dr. Young told her on September 30, 1996, that her condition was a permanent one with which she had to live. Five weeks later, in early November 1996, appellee saw another physician about her foot. The second physician took an x-ray of appellee’s foot and diagnosed a dislocation of her talonavicular joint with subluxation of the calcaneal cuboid joint of the ankle. Thereafter, appellee telephonically informed Dr. Young of the second physician’s diagnosis. The second physician performed surgery in December 1996 to repair the three dislocated bones, and Dr. Young saw appellee with regard to her diabetes during her hospital stay following the surgery. Appellee filed her complaint alleging medical malpractice/failure to diagnose on the part of Dr. Young. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The General Assembly has determined that medical malpractice actions must be filed within two years of the occurrence of injury or death arising from a negligent or wrongful act or omission. [Cit.] The legislatively-prescribed statute of limitation[s] does not provide for the commencement of the period of limitation [at any other point], and the judicial branch is not empowered to engraft such a provision on to what the legislature has enacted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kaminer v. Canas
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.