67 N.C. App. 211 - Black v. Littlejohn’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1985
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lopez v. Swyer · 38 N.C. App. 50 - Ballenger v. Crowell · 161 Cal. App. 2d 800 - Hundley v. St. Francis Hospital · Foil v. Ballinger · Flippin v. Jarrell
Most-quoted passages
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“The clear purpose of the exception in G.S. 1-15(c) allowing for a four-year limitation period in certain cases is to provide for latent injuries where the physical damage to a prospective plaintiff is not readily apparent, and not for those cases in which the injury is obvious but the alleged negligence of the doctor is not. We do not believe our legislature intended to equate discovery of injury with the discovery of negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. Littlejohn
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