Oakes Ex Rel. Oakes v. Gilday

How courts have described this case

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

• in medical malpractice action based on defendant doctor's alleged failure to warn patient of side effects of prescribed drug, doctor's duty to warn was breached each time patient submitted to treatment without proper consent
• “The general rule in tort law is that in the case of a continuing tort and injury whose damages cannot be determined until the cessation of the wrong, the statute of limitations begins to run no earlier than the last date of the wrong”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brzoska v. Olson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-09-08· cited 367×
• Oliver B. Cannon & Son, Inc. v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.
  D. Delaware· 1980-01-16· cited 37×
• Benge v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-01-24· cited 30×
• Carr v. Town of Dewey Beach
  D. Delaware· 1990-02-02· cited 24×
• Vadala v. Henkels & McCoy, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1979-01-24· cited 14×
• Meekins v. Barnes
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-02-10· cited 13×
• American Premier Underwriters Inc. v. General Electric Co.
  S.D. Ohio· 2012-03-31· cited 7×
• Bigay v. Garvey
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1997-06-30· cited 2×
• Atlantic Medical Specialists, LLC v. Gastroenterology Associates, P.A.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-04-20
• Rogers v. Bushey
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-02-09
• Ashland LLC v. Samuel J. Heyman 1981 Continuing Trust for Lazarus S. Heyman
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-06-21
• GI Associates of Delaware v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-02-15