Hoult v. Hoult

How courts have described this case

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

• the plaintiff lacked conscious memory of sexual abuse and therefore lacked actual knowledge, and a reasonable person would not have been able to discern the harm and its cause
• discovery rule should be applied under Massachusetts law to tort claims by victims of incest who have no memory of sexual abuse until after expiration of statute of limitations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cambridge Plating Co., Inc. v. Napco, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1993-04-22· cited 89×
• Logerquist v. Danforth
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1996-10-03· cited 84×
• Farris v. Compton
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1994-12-29· cited 74×
• Doe v. Shults-Lewis Child & Family Services, Inc.
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-10-08· cited 70×
• Phinney v. Morgan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-08-28· cited 54×
• Moriarty v. Garden Sanctuary Church of God
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-01-18· cited 19×
• Fidler v. Central Cooperative Bank (In Re Fidler)
  D. Massachusetts· 1997-06-30· cited 13×
• Lindgren v. Moore
  N.D. Illinois· 1995-09-29· cited 11×
• Shahzade v. Gregory
  D. Massachusetts· 1996-07-15· cited 9×
• Clark v. Edison
  D. Massachusetts· 2012-07-25· cited 8×
• Flanagan v. Grant
  D. Massachusetts· 1995-08-08· cited 4×
• Lewis v. General Electric Co.
  D. Massachusetts· 2003-04-08· cited 4×
• Reed v. Barnes
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-02-08· cited 2×
• Clark v. Edison
  D. Massachusetts· 2012-01-24· cited 1×
• Cambridge Plating Co. v. Napco, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1993-04-22
• Legaski v. Melanson
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1994-10-05
• DiBiase v. DiBiase
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1995-08-25
• Szymczuk v. Szymczuk
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1996-03-05

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Riley v. Presnell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-01-28· cited 293×
• Hendrickson v. Sears
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-04-09· cited 260×
• Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-08-06· cited 243×
• Franklin v. Albert
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-10-09· cited 190×
• Friedman v. Jablonski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-12-16· cited 155×
• Cannon v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-04-03· cited 81×
• Joseph A. Fortin Construction, Inc. v. Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-11· cited 47×