Smith v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 564 So. 2d 1346 - Palmer v. Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Inc. (1990), Short v. Columbus Rubber and Gasket Co. (1988)
5 federal appellate · 127 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 United States v. Kubrick · 444 So. 2d 358 - Brown v. Credit Center, Inc. · Waits v. United States · 462 So. 2d 330 - Pittman v. Hodges · Graham v. Pugh
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.
“There may be rare cases where the patient is aware of his injury prior to the [expiration of the limitations period], but does not discover and could not have discovered with reasonable diligence the act or omission which caused the injury. In such cases, the action does not accrue until the latter discovery is made.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“from the date the alleged act, omission or neglect shall or with reasonable diligence might have first been known or discovered.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ll motions for summary judgment should be viewed with great skepticism and if the trial court is to err, it is better to err on the side of denying the motion. When doubt exists whether there is a fact issue, the non-moving party gets its benefit. Indeed, the party against whom the summary judgment is sought should be given the benefit of every reasonable doubt.”
12 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.