Teeters v. Currey’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Carvell v. Bottoms (1995), Robinson v. Weaver (1977)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 74 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 Ayers v. Morgan · 251 Cal. App. 2d 303 - Custodio v. Bauer · Hays v. Hall · Layton v. Allen · Albert v. Sherman
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. the cause of action accrues and the statute of limitations commences to run when the patient discovers, or in the exercise of reasonable care and diligence for his own health and welfare, should have discovered the resulting injury, [at p. 517]”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage““The same considerations of elemental justice would demand a similar rule in malpractice actions. We find it difficult to embracé a rule of law requiring that a plaintiff file suit prior to knowledge of his injury or, phrasing it another way, requiring that he sue to vindicate a nonexistent wrong, at a time when injury is unknown and unknowable.” 518 S.W.2d at 515 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except in topsy-turvey land, you can't die before you are conceived, or be divorced before ever you marry, or harvest a crop never planted, or burn down a house never built, or miss a train running on a non-existent railroad. For substantially similar reasons, it has always heretofore been accepted, as a sort of legal "axiom," that a statute of limitations does not begin to run against a cause of action before that cause of action exists, i.e., before a judicial remedy is available to the plaintiff. Id. at 823 .”
2 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.