Lambert v. Stovell

How courts have described this case

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

• claim accrued when plaintiff was “aware of circumstances indicating that he had suffered a form of ‘actionable harm’ and should have discovered his injury at that time”
• general denial of complaint and statute of limitations defense causes general verdict for defendant to be reasonably rendered on one or more distinct grounds
• \[t]he three year provision of § 52-577 is applicable to all tort actions other than those excepted therefrom by § 52-584 or other sections\
• in negligence actions brought under Connecticut law, “injury” means actionable harm for statute of limitations purposes
• Accrual of medical malpractice action occurs on discovery of some form of actionable harm, not on discovery of applicable legal theories.
• because claim was “based upon a lack of informed consent and not an absence of consent,” it was not a battery claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc. v. W.R. Grace & Co.--Conn.
  Second Circuit· 1996-02-21· cited 314×
• Rivera v. Double A Transportation, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-03-16· cited 260×
• Champagne v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-08-08· cited 232×
• Dowling v. Finley Associates, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-04-06· cited 128×
• Mountaindale Condominium Ass'n v. Zappone
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2000-08-15· cited 54×
• Merly v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-05-16· cited 48×
• Culbertson v. Mernitz
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-10-29· cited 45×
• Lagassey v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-05-04· cited 44×
• Pedersen v. Vahidy
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-01-03· cited 43×
• prod.liab.rep. (Cch) P 13,275 Terry Gnazzo v. G.D. Searle & Co.
  Second Circuit· 1992-08-21· cited 39×
• Caron v. Adams
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1994-03-08· cited 35×
• In Re State Police Litigation
  D. Connecticut· 1995-05-16· cited 32×
• Gemme v. Goldberg
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1993-06-01· cited 26×
• Shortell v. Cavanagh
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-03-15· cited 20×
• Duffy v. Flagg
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-08-29· cited 17×
• Gallinari v. Kloth
  D. Connecticut· 2015-12-01· cited 15×
• George v. Carusone
  D. Connecticut· 1994-03-24· cited 13×
• Tarnowsky v. Socci
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2003-03-18· cited 8×
• Lombard v. Edward J. Peters, Jr., P.C.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2003-09-09· cited 7×
• SANDSTROM ON BEHALF OF SANDSTROM v. Chemlawn Corp.
  D. Connecticut· 1991-03-14· cited 4×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burns v. Hartford Hospital
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-03-13· cited 507×
• Jerry W. Canterbury v. William Thornton Spence and the Washington Hospital Center, a Body Corporate
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-07-20· cited 455×
• Cobbs v. Grant
  California Supreme Court· 1972-10-27· cited 393×
• Catz v. Rubenstein
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-08-12· cited 354×
• Finley v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-01-27· cited 261×
• Logan v. Greenwich Hospital Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-09-06· cited 171×
• United Aircraft Corp. v. International Ass'n of Machinists
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1971-04-13· cited 74×
• Meglio v. Comeau
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1951-02-27· cited 47×
• Stone v. Bastarache
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-08-24· cited 39×
• Colucci v. Pinette
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1981-11-17· cited 34×
• LaFleur v. Farmington River Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-06-08· cited 27×