Harmon v. Blackwood’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
12 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 429 So. 2d 955 - COLUMBIA ENGINEERING INTERN., LTD. v. Espey · 510 So. 2d 227 - Davis v. Mims · 402 So. 2d 971 - Minton v. Whisenant · Walden v. Mineral Equipment Co. · 611 So. 2d 254 - Clay v. Walden Joint Venture
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]hen a plaintiff knows the name of a physician and the involvement of that physician in the treatment of the patient, it is incumbent upon the plaintiff, before the running of the statutory period, to investigate and to evaluate his claim to determine who is responsible for the injury and to ascertain whether there is evidence of malpractice.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to invoke the relation-back principles of Rule 9(h) and Rule 15(c), a plaintiff must ... be ignorant of the identity of that defendant ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“excuse the plaintiff's ignorance of a cause of action against the fictitiously named defendant”
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.