Lee v. Peek’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1984
12 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 Simon v. Flowers · Savage v. Cannon · Morgan v. State Farm Mutual Insurance · Michalson v. Roundtree · Bishop v. Jacobs
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he general rule undoubtedly is that the neglect of the attorney is the neglect of the client.... The acts and omissions of the attorney in such case are those of the client.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The showing of neglect without a proper excuse is insufficient under both Section 10-609 and 10-1213.”
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.