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← 381 S.C. 643 - Rydde v. Morris

Rydde v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

32 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Krawczyk v. Stingle · Pye v. Estate of Fox Ex Rel. Estate of Fox · Ellis v. Davidson · Smith v. Haynsworth · Hall v. Fedor

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the existence of an attorney-client relationship; (2) a breach of duty by the attorney; (3) damage to the client; and (4) proximate cause of the client's damages by the breach.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “On appeal from the dismissal of a case pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6), [SCRCP,] an appellate court applies the same standard of review as the trial court.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “failure to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action”
    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.