Johnson v. St. Patrick's Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, when a surgeon negligently leaves a foreign object in a patient’s body, the statute of limitations is tolled “until the patient learns of, or in exercise of reasonable care and diligence should have learned of the presence of such foreign object in his body”
• discovery rule applied in malpractice action against doctor and hospital
• discovery rule applied in malpractice action against doctor and hospital
• interpreting a state statute of limitation

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Cited by

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

• Gaddis v. Smith
  Texas Supreme Court· 1967-07-05· cited 273×
• Berry v. Branner
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1966-12-28· cited 208×
• Wilkinson v. Harrington
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1968-06-25· cited 154×
• Myrick v. James
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1982-05-04· cited 122×
• Ruth v. Dight
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-04-10· cited 121×
• Hatsumi Yoshizaki v. Hilo Hospital
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1967-11-03· cited 117×
• Harland v. Anderson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1976-04-08· cited 97×
• Wyler v. Tripi
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1971-02-24· cited 92×
• Iverson v. Lancaster
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1968-04-25· cited 86×
• Ew v. Dch
  Montana Supreme Court· 1988-05-03· cited 76×
• Rosenau v. City of New Brunswick
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1968-02-05· cited 69×
• E.W. v. D.C.H.
  Montana Supreme Court· 1988-05-03· cited 69×
• Kelly v. Marcantonio
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1996-07-11· cited 55×
• Hando v. PPG Industries, Inc.
  Montana Supreme Court· 1989-03-30· cited 50×
• Christiansen v. Rees
  Utah Supreme Court· 1968-01-16· cited 48×
• Small v. McRae
  Montana Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 45×
• Schoof v. Nesbit
  Montana Supreme Court· 2014-01-09· cited 45×
• Orr v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 2004-12-14· cited 44×
• Warrington v. Charles Pfizer & Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1969-07-02· cited 44×
• Sharlene Hall and Ray Hall v. Dr. Ernest E. Musgrave and Dr. Charles F. Sowards
  Sixth Circuit· 1975-06-02· cited 39×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. Elias
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1941-12-05· cited 130×
• Billings v. Sisters of Mercy of Idaho
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1964-01-24· cited 108×
• Tulloch v. Haselo
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1926-11-11· cited 39×
• Heckaman v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
  Montana Supreme Court· 1933-01-30· cited 38×
• Murray v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1931-05-05· cited 38×
• Vaughn v. Langmack
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1964-03-11· cited 34×
• Sly v. Van Lengen
  New York Supreme Court· 1923-03-15· cited 27×
• Floyd v. City of Butte
  Montana Supreme Court· 1966-03-14· cited 21×
• Gangloff v. Apfelbach
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1943-06-16· cited 12×

Other cases named Johnson v. St. Patrick's Hospital

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Johnson v. St. Patrick's Hospital
  Montana Supreme Court· 1968-12-20· cited 9×