Burgett v. Flaherty’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Schneider v. Leaphart (1987), Morris v. Geer (1986)
4 district · 21 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 18 Cal. 3d 93 - Sanchez v. South Hoover Hospital · Reaves v. Reinbold · 97 Cal. App. 3d 798 - McGee v. Weinberg · Interstate Manufacturing Co. v. Interstate Products Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a matter of law, what is critical in determining when a legal malpractice action accrues is knowledge of the facts essential to the cause of action, not knowledge of the legal theories upon which an action may be brought.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Actions for legal malpractice. An action against an attorney licensed to practice law in Montana or a paralegal assistant or a legal intern employed by an attorney based on the person’s alleged professional negligent act or for error or omission in the person’s practice must be commenced within 3 years after the plaintiff discovers or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered the act, error, or omission, whichever occurs last, but in no case may the action be commenced after 10 years from the date of the act, error, or omission.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loney v. Dye · Young v. Datsopoulos“this Court has held that the statute of limitations begins to run when the plaintiff has”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Datsopoulos
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.