Amu v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Cleaveland v. Gannon (2008), HOSPITAL AUTHORITY OF VALDOSTA/LOWNDES COUNTY D/B/A SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER v. DENNIS H. FENDER (2017)
24 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 Bragdon v. Abbott · Allrid v. Emory University · 188 Ga. App. 706 - Whitaker v. Zirkle · Shessel v. Stroup · Kaminer v. Canas
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trigger for commencement of the statute of limitations is the date that the patient received the 'new injury,' which is determined to be an occurrence of symptoms following an asymptomatic period.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“on the one hand, with a recognition, on the other, that not all”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[plaintiff's] metastatic cancer is a `new injury'”
3 later decisions 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.