Jones v. Owings

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to adopt the \loss of chance\ doctrine in South Carolina
• \[l]egal responsibility in this approach is in reality assigned based on the mere possibility that a tortfeasor's negligence was a cause of the ultimate harm\
• “[l]egal responsibility in this approach is in reality assigned based on the mere possibility that a tortfeasor’s negligence was a cause of the ultimate harm”
• the “proportional approach” is also known as the “pure” standard
• “[W]e decline to adopt the doctrine and maintain our traditional approach.”
• declining to adopt the loss of chance doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Weymers v. Khera
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1997-06-17· cited 294×
• Taylor v. Medenica
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-11-12· cited 102×
• Matsuyama v. Birnbaum
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-07-23· cited 76×
• Mohr v. Grantham
  Washington Supreme Court· 2011-10-13· cited 74×
• Ensink v. Mecosta County General Hospital
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2004-09-01· cited 67×
• Smith v. Parrott
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2003-08-01· cited 36×
• Contois v. Town of West Warwick
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-12-17· cited 31×
• United States v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-11-22· cited 29×
• Burroughs v. Worsham
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2002-12-09· cited 28×
• Haselden v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2000-06-19· cited 26×
• Martasin v. Hilton Head Health System, L.P.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-05-02· cited 16×
• Crosby v. Glasscock Trucking Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-05-22· cited 14×
• Crosby v. United States
  D. Alaska· 1999-04-09· cited 12×
• Estate of Frey v. Mastroianni.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2020-05-05· cited 11×
• Hendricks v. Clemson University
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2000-03-20· cited 8×
• Grant v. American National Red Cross
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2000-02-17· cited 8×
• State v. McAteer
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1998-12-21· cited 5×

Cites

21 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×
• Fabio v. Bellomo
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-08-20· cited 547×
• Kramer v. Lewisville Memorial Hospital
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-09-10· cited 346×
• Gooding v. University Hosp. Bldg., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 243×
• Kilpatrick v. Bryant
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-12-22· cited 241×
• 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×
• 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×
• DeBurkarte v. Louvar
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-09-17· cited 121×
• Thornton v. CAMC, ETC.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-07-08· cited 98×
• Wollen v. DePaul Health Center
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1992-04-02· cited 93×
• Aasheim v. Humberger
  Montana Supreme Court· 1985-02-21· cited 91×
• Delaney v. Cade
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-04-22· cited 88×
• Manning v. Twin Falls Clinic & Hospital, Inc.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1992-04-08· cited 85×
• Fennell v. Southern Maryland Hospital Center, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-10-09· cited 60×
• Grody v. Tulin
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1976-03-30· cited 52×
• Hanselmann v. McCardle
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1980-06-02· cited 51×
• Pillsbury-Flood v. Portsmouth Hospital
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1986-07-17· cited 51×
• Ladner v. Campbell
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-04· cited 48×