198 W. Va. 498 - Smith v. Stacy’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Greene v. Morgan, Theeler, Cogley & Petersen (1998), R.D.H. Communications, Ltd. v. Winston (1997)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy · Shaw v. Barr · Oscar v. University Students Cooperative Ass'n · 2 Cal. 4th 606 - Laird v. Blacker · 6 Cal. 2d 302 - Huysman v. Kirsch
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the attorney's 'involvement after the alleged malpractice [must be] for the performance of the same or related services and not merely continuity of a general professional relationship.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. James Nicely v. Mcbrayer · Nicely“'[T]he inquiry is not whether an attorney-client relationship still exists on any matter or even generally, but when the representation of the specific matter concluded.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. James Nicely v. Mcbrayer · Nicely“Alagia, Day, Trautwein & Smith v. Broadbent, 882 S.W.2d 121, 125 (Ky.1994),”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. James Nicely v. Mcbrayer · Nicely
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.