Allenius v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Zimmie v. Calfee, Halter & Griswold (1989), Shover v. Cordis Corp. (1991)
3 federal appellate · 162 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 Gaines v. Preterm-Cleveland, Inc. · Mominee v. Scherbarth · Oliver v. Kaiser Community Health Foundation · Hershberger v. Akron City Hospital · Hardy v. VerMeulen
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which does or should lead the patient to believe that the condition of which the patient complains is related to a medical procedure, treatment or diagnosis previously rendered to the patient and where the cognizable event does or should place the patient on notice of the need to pursue his possible remedies.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“some noteworthy event * * * which does or should alert a reasonable person-patient that an improper medical procedure, treatment or diagnosis has taken place.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the patient discovers, or, in the exercise of reasonable care and diligence should have discovered, the resulting injury,'”
5 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.