Goodman v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Reese v. Danforth (1979), Dodge v. Gaylord (1876)
1 federal appellate · 38 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 Tomkies v. Reynolds · Harbin v. Levi · Dearborn v. Dearborn · Buffum v. Chadwick · Gilmore v. Pope
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the law governing the bringing of the suit was well and carefully defined, both In text-books and in our decisions, and if the rule bad existed and been published long enough to justify the belief that it was known tx> the profession, then (lie disregard of such rule by an attorney at law renders him accountable for the loss caused by such negligence or want of skill,— negligence if, knowing tile rule, lie disregards it; want of skill if lie was ignorant of the rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ahlhauser v. Butler“is not answerable for error in judgment upon points of new occurrence, or of nice or doubtful construction.”
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.