202 Ga. App. 882 - Hudson v. Windholz’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2025
17 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 138 Ga. App. 849 - Berman v. Rubin · 182 Ga. App. 225 - Guillebeau v. Jenkins · 174 Ga. App. 453 - Rogers v. Norvell · 188 Ga. App. 716 - McGivern v. First Capital Income Properties, Ltd. · 190 Ga. App. 629 - Hudson v. Montcalm Publishing Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhere can be no liability for acts and omissions by an attorney in the conduct of litigation which are based on an honest exercise of professional judgment .... Otherwise, every losing litigant would be able to sue his attorney if he could find another attorney who was willing to second guess the decisions of the first attorney with the advantage of hindsight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to prevail on a claim for legal malpractice the client has the burden of establishing three elements: (1) employment of the defendant attorney, (2) failure of the attorney to exercise ordinary care, skill and diligence, and (3) that such negligence was the proximate cause of damage to the plaintiff.”
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.