Flemens v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2018
20 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 Chapman v. Alexander · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Humphreys · Brown v. Arkansas Central Power Co. · Ford's Inc. v. Russell Brown & Co. · Courtney v. FIRST NAT. BANK OF E. ARK.
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.
“We hold that the statute of hmitations for an insurance agent commences at the time the negligent act occurs, in keeping with our traditional rule in professional malpractice cases. However, in doing so, we recognize the harshness of this rule to the clients of not only insurance agents, but also of attorneys, accountants, and others who may avail themselves of this rule in defending against malpractice actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ragar v. Brown“last element essential to the cause of action”
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.