Sharts v. Natelson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Duncan v. Campbell (1997), Delta Automatic Systems, Inc. v. Bingham (1998)
4 district · 43 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 Shaw v. Barr · 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand · 6 Cal. 3d 195 - Budd v. Nixen · Dock v. American Telephone & Telegraph Technologies · 2 Cal. 4th 606 - Laird v. Blacker
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen malpractice results in the loss of a right, remedy, or interest, or in the imposition of a liability, there has been actual injury regardless of whether future events may affect the permanency of the injury or the amount of monetary damages eventually incurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the client discovers, or through reasonable diligence should discover, the facts essential to the cause of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“is generally a question of fact, but where the undisputed facts show that the client knew, or should have been aware of the negligent conduct on or before a specified date, the issue may be decided as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Cahn v. Word
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.