Goodhand v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 209 · 1994
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Shawn Owens v. William E. Boyd, Warden, Western Illinois Correctional Center (2000), Limestone Development Corp. v. Village of Lemont (2008)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2401
Relies on Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · United States v. Kubrick · Cada v. Baxter Healthcare Corp. · 324 Pa. Super. 123 - Cathcart v. Keene Industrial Insulation · Lancaster v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Until the plaintiff knows that he has been injured and by whom or by what, he has no reason to take steps to determine whether he might have legal claim. This is obvious if he doesn’t even know that he has been injured, a distinct possibility in medical malpractice cases because medical interventions can have adverse consequences that do not manifest themselves for months or years or even decades. Even if he knows that he is injured, if he does not know who or what inflicted the injury, he again has no reason to suppose that he might have a legal claim against someone. This is a common problem in medical malpractice cases, for it is often unclear whether symptoms that appear in the wake of a medical intervention are the consequence of whatever underlying health problem led to the intervention, in which event there is no basis for the legal claim, or of the intervention itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Id. Two exceptions to the general rule exist. First: When the plaintiff's injury initially seems trivial, and only later is discovered to be serious enough to warrant the expense of litigation, the date of accrual will be set at the later date. Id. at 214. Second: If the defendants have”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Were it not for this rule, the statute of limitations might be extended indefinitely--perhaps even to death, since until then it is always possible that the plaintiff's injury will worsen.”
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.