27 Ohio App. 3d 41 - Howard v. Sweeney’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 76 Ohio App. 3d 413 - Rinehart v. Maiorano (1991), 81 Ohio App. 3d 515 - Harrell v. Crystal (1992)
1 federal appellate · 23 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 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · 13 Cal. 3d 349 - Smith v. Lewis · Wyler v. Tripi · Clutter v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. · 119 Cal. App. 3d 883 - Davis v. Damrell
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.
“* * * (1) an attorney-client relationship existed at the time of the incident, (2) the attorney breached his duty by failing to provide competent legal services, and (3) the plaintiffs suffered damages as a proximate result of the attorney's breach of duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trudeau v. Kuhnle“Counsel's failure to predict a subsequent change in a settled point of law cannot serve as a foundation for professional negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roat“'180 22 degrees shift in law' cannot serve as the basis for professional negligence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roat
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.