Lambert v. Michel’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1993
10 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 360 So. 2d 1331 - Ardoin v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co. · 359 So. 2d 1256 - Everett v. Goldman · Wilton Jones Co. v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. · Perrin v. Rodriguez · Foster v. Hampton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. No action for damages for injury or death against any physician, ..., whether based upon tort, or breach of contract, or otherwise, arising out of patient care shall be brought unless filed within one year from the date of the alleged act, omission, or neglect, or within one year from the date of discovery of the alleged act, omission, or neglect; however, even as to claims filed within one year from the date of such discovery, in all events such claims shall be filed at the latest within a period of three years from the date of the alleged act, omission, or neglect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“period established by La.R.S. 9:5628. The appeals court held that the plaintiff was entitled to file a wrongful death and survival action for one year following the death provided the decedent's cause of action had not prescribed at the time of death. That decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court, which stated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The right to recover all other damages caused by an offense or quasi-offense, if the injured person dies, shall survive for a period of one year from the death of the deceased....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.