Lane v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Chapman v. Alexander (1991), Chalmers v. Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. (1996)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 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 Lopez v. Swyer · Borgia v. City of New York · Waldman v. Rohrbaugh · Farley v. Goode · 161 Cal. App. 2d 800 - Hundley v. St. Francis Hospital
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the treatment by the doctor is a continuing course and the patient's illness, injury or condition is of such a nature as to impose on the doctor a duty of continuous treatment and care, the statute does not commence running until treatment by the doctor for the particular disease or condition involved has terminated unless during treatment the patient learns or should learn of negligence, in which case the statute runs from the time of discovery, actual or constructive. (Emphasis added.)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the date of the wrongful act complained of and no other time.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“knew or should have known there was a wrong.”
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.