Hocking Conservancy District v. Dodson-Lindblom Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that engineering was not one of the traditional professions at common law and, accordingly, not subject to the malpractice statute of limitations
• \only physicians and lawyers” can commit \malpractice” under both R.C. 2305.11(A) and its common-law definition
• which limits malpractice actions to the professions of lawyers and physicians because they exercise independent judgment directly affecting their client/patient and necessarily will often fail to fulfill expectations yet fulfill their professional duties
• professional engineer is not considered to have committed “malpractice”
• Negligence of professional engineer did not constitute malpractice.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Investors REIT One v. Jacobs
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1989-11-08· cited 209×
• Clutter v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
  Sixth Circuit· 1981-04-07· cited 73×
• Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. v. General Electric Co.
  S.D. Ohio· 1986-09-04· cited 65×
• Sime v. Tvenge Associates Architects & Planners, P.C.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1992-06-25· cited 45×
• Evans v. Chapman
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1986-12-24· cited 28×
• Lombard v. Good Samaritan Medical Center
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1982-02-26· cited 27×
• Johnson v. Koppers Co., Inc.
  N.D. Ohio· 1981-10-28· cited 22×
• Koler v. St. Joseph Hospital
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1982-02-26· cited 22×
• Everhart v. Coshocton Cty. Mem. Hosp.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2023-12-28· cited 19×
• Bartley v. Hearth & Care of Greenfield, L.L.C.
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2013-01-28· cited 14×
• Tisdale v. Toledo Hospital
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2012-03-16· cited 14×
• Whitt v. Columbus Cooperative Enterprises
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1980-12-30· cited 14×
• Bazdar v. Koppers Co., Inc.
  N.D. Ohio· 1981-10-28· cited 11×
• Thomas, the Lord of Shalford v. Shelley's Jewelry, Inc.
  W.D. North Carolina· 2000-12-28· cited 11×
• Jilek v. Berger Electric, Inc.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1989-06-06· cited 10×
• B&B Contrs. & Developers, Inc. v. Olsavsky Jaminet Architects, Inc.
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2012-12-14· cited 6×
• Moore v. Covenant Care Ohio, Inc.
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2014-09-19· cited 3×
• Panther Air Boat Corp. v. MacMillan-Buchanan & Kelly Insurance Agency
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-02-25· cited 2×
• Unnamed case
  Sixth Circuit· 1981-04-07
• Johnson v. Mercy Health Care, St. Vincent Med. Ctr.
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2025-03-31