Comstock v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2019
1 district · 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 Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Hertz v. Woodman · 38 N.C. App. 50 - Ballenger v. Crowell · Farley v. Goode · Hecht v. First National Bank & Trust Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Most medical negligence cases specifically rejecting theories of continuous treatment involve a single, allegedly negligent act with no further contact between the physician and patient. See, e.g., Doyle v. Planned Parenthood, 31 Wash.App. 126 , 639 P.2d 240 (1982) ("alleged wrongful act" triggering statute of limitation was insertion of IUD, not later failure to warn, where there was no continuing treatment); . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a cause of action for injury to person...shall be considered to accrue on the date both the injury and its cause are known or should have been known by the exercise of reasonable diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chrisco v. Raemisch“an action may be barred by the statute of limitation even before the statute of repose is triggered if the injury is discovered or should have been discovered but treatment continues”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chrisco v. Raemisch
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.