38 N.C. App. 50 - Ballenger v. Crowell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 70 N.C. App. 627 - Estrada v. Jaques (1984), Horton v. Carolina Medicorp, Inc. (1996)
9 federal appellate · 126 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 · Fernandi v. Strully · Waldman v. Rohrbaugh · Shearin v. Lloyd · Melnyk v. Cleveland Clinic
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so long as the relationship of surgeon and patient continued the surgeon was guilty of malpractice during that entire relationship for not repairing the damage he had done and, therefore, the cause of action against him arose at the conclusion of his contractual relationship.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“demonstrate ... that the treatment administered by defendant was in negligent violation of the accepted standard of medical care in the community and that defendant's treatment proximately caused the injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“deemed to accrue at the time of the occurrence of the last act of the defendant giving rise to the cause of action ....”
4 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.