Barnes v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Omni Holding & Development Corp. v. 3D.S.A., Inc. (2004), Thomas v. State (2007)
2 federal appellate · 80 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 Pugh v. Griggs · Dodson v. Allstate Insurance · Edwards v. Stills · Union Pacific Railroad v. Sharp · Arthur v. Zearley
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attorney is not liable to a client when, acting in good faith, he or she makes mere errors of judgment. Moreover, an attorney is 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 the highest jurisdiction and on which reasonable attorneys may differ.”
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.