Kellos v. Sawilowsky’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the final analysis, the local standard versus the standard of the legal profession generally may be a distinction without a difference. . . . Our conclusion ... is that the standard of care required of an attorney remains constant — whether he is considered as a practitioner of a given State or as a practitioner of “the legal profession generally” — and that only the applications of care vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and from situation to situation. Hence, there is no particular value in using the standard in the individual State, but on the other hand there is nothing inaccurate or wrong with it either. In other words, in the case at bar, the fact that the standard used was that of the State of Georgia did not adversely affect the sufficiency of the showing on the motion for summary judgment. [Kellos, supra, 254 Ga. at 5 .]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McDaniel v. Hendrix