Lenius v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2019
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Universal Builders, Inc. v. Clark · Hill v. Okay Const. Co., Inc. · 146 Ga. App. 341 - Hughes v. Malone · Federal Land Bank of Omaha v. Houck · 46 Ill. App. 3d 68 - House v. Maddox
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]xcept in clear and palpable cases ..., expert testimony is necessary to establish the parameters [sic] of acceptable professional conduct, a significant deviation from which would constitute malpractice.' The reason for this requirement is simply that a jury cannot rationally apply negligence principles to professional conduct absent evidence of what the competent lawyer would have done under similar circumstances, and the jury may not be permitted to speculate about' what the “professional custom” may be. Expert evidence as to the “professional custom” is required in malpractice actions against other professionals. [Citations omitted.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In performing professional services for a [patient], a [dentist] has the duty to have that degree of learning and skill ordinarily possessed by [dentists] of good standing engaged in the same type of practice in the same or a similar locality. It is his further duty to see that care and skill ordinarily exercised in like cases by members in good standing of his profession engaged in the same line of practice in the same or similar locality under similar circumstances /id to be diligent in an effort to accomp ish the purpose for which he is employed. A failure to perform any such duty is negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a malpractice action the jury decides, from evidence presented at trial by other lawyers called as expert witnesses, whether a lawyer possessed and used the knowledge, skill, and care which the law demands of him. The opinions and testimony of such experts are indispensable in determining questions which are unfamiliar to ordinary witnesses ....”
2 later decisions 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.