Delaney v. Cade

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the healthcare professional failed to properly treat plaintiff's leg injury, which resulted in loss of chance that she would regain use of her legs
• noting this distinction when applying the theory of loss of chance for a better recovery in medical malpractice cases
• allowing paraplegic plaintiff to recover where risk of spinal cord injury was increased five to ten percent by prolonged period of shock following car accident and prior to surgery
• distinguishing between “loss of survival” and “loss of better recovery” cases
• \we reject scrapping causation (the bedrock of our tort law) in negligence cases where the injury alleged by the plaintiff is something less than death\
• doctor’s treatment and delay in transferring patient, causing loss of chance for better recovery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

47 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Weymers v. Khera
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1997-06-17· cited 294×
• Roberts v. Ohio Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1996-08-28· cited 140×
• Gloria Rios v. F. Calvin Bigler, M.D. And Lauren A. Welch, M.D.
  Tenth Circuit· 1995-10-17· cited 133×
• Cahoon v. Cummings
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-09-01· cited 127×
• Matsuyama v. Birnbaum
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-07-23· cited 76×
• Alberts v. Schultz
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1999-02-25· cited 74×
• Mohr v. Grantham
  Washington Supreme Court· 2011-10-13· cited 74×
• Alexander v. Scheid
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-04-03· cited 61×
• Esquivel v. Watters
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-05-23· cited 50×
• Charles Doll v. Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-03-18· cited 47×
• Jorgenson v. Vener
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-07-05· cited 43×
• Smith v. Parrott
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2003-08-01· cited 36×
• Nold Ex Rel. Nold v. Binyon
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2001-09-21· cited 35×
• Borkowski v. Sacheti
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1996-10-01· cited 34×
• McMullen v. Ohio State University Hospitals
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2000-04-12· cited 30×
• United States v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-11-22· cited 29×
• Smith v. Welch
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1998-09-18· cited 28×
• Jones v. Owings
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-03-13· cited 25×
• Burnette v. Eubanks
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2018-08-24· cited 25×
• Wendland v. Sparks
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-02-18· cited 24×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hamil v. Bashline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 562×
• Harry J. Hicks, Administrator of the Estate of Carol Greitens, Deceased v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1966-10-27· cited 221×
• McKellips v. Saint Francis Hospital, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1987-07-21· cited 191×
• Herskovits v. Group Health Cooperative
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-05-26· cited 186×
• Cooper v. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Inc.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1971-07-21· cited 185×
• Jones v. Montefiore Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 175×
• Durflinger v. Artiles
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-12-02· cited 161×
• Thompson v. Sun City Community Hospital, Inc.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-06-12· cited 147×
• Perez v. Las Vegas Medical Center
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-02-01· cited 123×
• Malone v. University of Kansas Medical Center
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-07-23· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Banks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 94×
• Aasheim v. Humberger
  Montana Supreme Court· 1985-02-21· cited 91×
• Roberson v. Counselman
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1984-07-13· cited 72×
• Jo Pearl Jeanes, Administratrix of the Estate of Tommy Joe Jeanes, Deceased v. E. L. Milner, William S. Orr and Aetna Casualty & Surety Company
  Eighth Circuit· 1970-06-08· cited 65×
• James v. United States
  N.D. California· 1980-01-16· cited 62×
• Webb v. Lungstrum
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-02-25· cited 57×
• Peggy W. McBride Individually and as Next Friend of Susan Kay McBride v. United States of America, a Body Politic and Sovereign
  Ninth Circuit· 1972-06-14· cited 43×
• Cleveland v. Wong
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-06-21· cited 42×
• Circle Land & Cattle Corp. v. Amoco Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-01-14· cited 20×
• Boody v. United States
  D. Kansas· 1989-02-27· cited 19×

Other cases named Delaney v. Cade

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Delaney v. Cade
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-02-18· cited 49×
• Delaney v. Cade
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-02-18· cited 16×
• Delaney v. Cade
  D. Kansas· 1991-01-25· cited 16×
• Delaney v. Cade
  D. Kansas· 1991-03-07