Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 367 A2D 653 - Pearson v. BOINES, MD

Pearson v. BOINES, MD’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1986
most recently cited

1 district · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Layton v. Allen · Bradford, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Company · Lembert v. Gilmore

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

  1. “No action for the recovery of damages upon a claim against a health care provider for personal injury, including personal injury which results in death, arising out of malpractice shall be brought after the expiration of 2 years from the date upon which such injury occurred; provided, however, that ... [sjolely in the event of personal injury the occurrence of which, during such period of 2 years, was unknown to and could not in the exercise of reasonable diligence have been discovered by the injured person, such action may be brought prior to the expiration of 3 years from the date upon which such injury occurred, and not thereafter....”
    1 later decision 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.