Hall v. Chi’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Birmingham v. Southern Express Co. · 368 So. 2d 516 - Garrett v. Raytheon Co., Inc. · Galloway Coal Co. v. Stanford · Usher v. Department of Industrial Relations · 399 So. 2d 263 - Tyson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(a) All actions against physicians, surgeons, dentists, medical institutions, or other health care providers for liability, error, mistake, or failure to cure, whether based on contract or tort, must be commenced within two years next after the act, or omission, or failure giving rise to the claim, and not afterwards; provided, that if the cause of action is not discovered and could not reasonably have been discovered within such period, then the action may be commenced within six months from the date of such discover}' or the date of discovery of facts which would reasonably lead to such discovery, whichever is earlier; provided further, that in no event may the action be commenced more than four years after such act. . . . "(b) Subsection (a) of this section shall be subject to all existing provisions of law relating to the computation of statutory periods of limitation for the commencement of actions, namely, Sections 6-2-1 , 6-2-2 , 6-2-3 , 6-2-5 , 6-2-6 , 6-2-8 , 6-2-9 , 6-2-10 , 6-2-13 , 6-2-15 , 6-2-16 , 6-2-17 , 6-2-30 , and 6-2-39 ; provided, that notwithstanding any provisions of such sections, no action shall be commenced more than four years after the act, omission, or failure complained of. . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a decedent has a viable medical-malpractice claim at the time of his death, his personal representative has two years from the date of the death to file a wrongful-death claim based on the alleged malpractice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Okeke v. Craig“only when two laws are so repugnant to or in conflict with each other that it must be presumed that the Legislature intended that the latter should repeal the former.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.