Pugh v. Griggs’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Wallace v. Broyles (1998), George v. Jefferson Hosp. Ass'n, Inc. (1999)
120 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 Nucor Holding Corp. v. Rinkines · Anthony v. Kaplan · Weidrick v. Arnold · Cherepski v. Walker · Gay v. Rabon
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attorney is negligent if he or she fails to exercise reasonable diligence and skill on behalf of the client.... In order to prevail on a claim of legal malpractice, a plaintiff must prove that the attorney’s conduct fell below the generally accepted standard of practice and that such conduct proximately caused the plaintiff damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An attorney is not liable to a client when, acting in good faith, he or she makes mere errors of judgment.... Moreover, attorneys are not, as a matter of law, liable for a mistaken opinion on a point of law that has not been settled by a court of highest jurisdiction and on which reasonable attorneys may differ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to exercise reasonable diligence and skill on behalf of the client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunn v. Westbrook
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.