Ripper v. Bain’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 district · 9 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 Carstensen v. Chrisland Corp. · Ortiz v. Barrett · Faison v. Hudson · Duvall, Blackburn, Hale & Downey v. Siddiqui · Page v. Arnold
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]rdinarily, the questions of whether an attorney has exercised the required degree of care and, if not, whether the failure was a proximate cause of the client's loss are to be decided by a fact finder, after considering expert testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An attorney is liable to the client for damages caused by the attorney's negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.