Boley v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Gibson v. Brewer (1997), City of St. Louis v. Hughes (1997)
62 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 Committee for Educational Equality v. State · Strahler v. St. Luke's Hospital · Senn v. Manchester Bank of St. Louis · Evans v. Farmers Elevator Co. · Mennemeyer v. Hart
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A number of courts that have addressed the issue have permitted the minor to recover medical expenses in a separate action. See, e.g., Myer v. Dyer, 643 A.2d 1382, 1387 (Del.Super.1993) (by not presenting timely claim, parents waived medical expense claim and separate claim existed on behalf of child for such expenses); Davis v. Drackett Prods. Co., 536 F.Supp. 694, 697 (S.D.Ohio 1982) (under Ohio law, statute of limitations may bar parents’ claim lor medical expenses incurred for treatment of minor, but minor may recover the full amount to which parents would be entitled); McNeill v. United States, 519 F.Supp. 283, 291 (D.S.C.1981) (statute of limitations barred parents’ claim for medical expenses paid on behalf of minor, but minor may maintain the claim in his separate action); Sox [v. United States], 187 F.Supp. [465] at 469 [ (E.D.S.C.1960) ] (same). It is apparent from these decisions that the courts viewed the cause of action as a joint right available to the parents and the child. The child’s right was recognized, at least implicitly, so as to avoid the bar of the statute of limitations. Other courts, however, have considered the claim for medical expenses as belonging exclusively to the parents; thus, if the parents’ action for medical expenses is barred by the applicable statute of limitations, the claim for medical expenses is also barred when asserted by the child. See, e.g., Hutto v. BIC Corp., 800 F.Supp. 1367, 1372 (E.D.Va.1992) (assignment of parents’ claim for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When more than one claim for relief is presented in an action ... or when multiple parties are involved, the court may enter a judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the claims or parties only upon an express determination that there is no just reason for delay. In the absence of such determination, any order or other form of decision, however designated, that adjudicates fewer than all the claims or the rights and liabilities of fewer than all the parties shall not terminate the action as to any of the claims or parties, and the order or other form of decision is subject to revision at any time before the entry of judgment adjudicating all the claims and the rights and liabilities of all the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This is not a matter of mere technical concern. Judicial integrity and restrain demand it. To avoid an arbitrary discretion in the courts, it is indispensable that they should be bound by strict rules and precedents which serve to define and point out their duty in every particular ease that comes before them. The Federalist Papers No. 78 (Alexander Hamilton). Courts, no less than the citizens they serve, must abide by the rules and prece dents defining their jurisdiction. To do otherwise is to erode the very foundation of the rule of law. The right to appeal is established by statute. Mo.Const. art. V, § 5. A prerequisite to appellate review is that there is a final judgment. § 512.020.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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