Opalko v. Marymount Hospital, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2019
3 federal appellate · 10 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 O'Stricker v. Jim Walter Corp. · Sax v. Votteler · Oliver v. Kaiser Community Health Foundation · Gregory v. Flowers · Lebohm v. City of Galveston
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) An action for ... malpractice, including an action for malpractice against a physician ... or a hospital, ... shall be brought within one year after the cause thereof accrued.... (B) In no event shall any medical claim against a physician ... or a hospital, ... be brought more than four years after the act or omission constituting the alleged malpractice occurred. The limitations in this section shall apply to all persons regardless of legal disability and notwithstanding § 2305.16 of the Revised Code....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““All men are, by nature, free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and seeking and obtaining happiness and safety.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“provision. B. 40 Hartford also contends that section 2305.131 violates the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment and Section 2, Article I of the Ohio Constitution, which states, in relevant part, that”
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.