Sarris v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Kubrick · Smith v. Sanders · 700 So. 2d 619 - Russell v. Orr · 733 So. 2d 199 - Barnes v. Singing River Hosp. Systems · 732 So. 2d 204 - Robinson v. Singing River Hosp. System
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the operative time [for the running of the statute of limitations] is when the patient can reasonably be held to have knowledge of the injury itself, the cause of the injury, and the causative relationship between the injury and the conduct of the medical practitioner.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“until a plaintiff `should have reasonably known of some negligent conduct, even if the plaintiff does not know with absolute certainty that the conduct was legally negligent.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“application of a statute of limitations is a question of law.”
6 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.