Smith v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Wallner v. Thorne (2010), Woodrow v. Heintschel (2011)
73 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Zimmie v. Calfee, Halter & Griswold · State v. Williams · 38 Ohio St. 3d 385 - Omni-Food & Fashion, Inc. v. Smith · 3 Ohio App. 3d 209 - Meyers v. First Natl. Bank of Cincinnati · Fox & Assocs. Co. v. Purdon
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) When should the client have known that he or she may have an injury caused by his or her attorney? and (2) When did the attorney-client relationship terminate? The latter of these two dates is the date that starts the running of the statute of limitations.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“are required to follow local rules and must file the appropriate motion with a court to withdraw from representation, * * * the date of termination of the attorney-client relationship for purposes of R.C. 2305.11 is determined by the actions of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he date of termination of an attorney-client relationship for R.C. 2305.11 purposes is a fact-specific determination to be made according to the rules set forth by statute and by case law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.