Boyett v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2012
4 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 Churchey v. Adolph Coors Co. · Continental Air Lines, Inc. v. Keenan · Committee for Better Health Care for All Colorado Citizens v. Meyer · Mancuso v. United Bank of Pueblo · Tapley v. Golden Big O Tires
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person shall be permitted to maintain an action ... to recover damages from... any person licensed in this state or any other state to practice medicine ... unless such action is instituted within two years after the person bringing the action discovered, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence and concern should have discovered, the injury. In no event may such action be instituted more than three years after the act or omission which gave rise thereto, subject to the following exceptions:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Boyett“We, therefore, conclude that the fact finder here must determine whether, at the time Smith explained the cause of the bile duct perforation to Boyett, he knew that his surgery had caused it and that appropriate steps should have been taken promptly after the surgery to treat the condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Boyett
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.