Pongonis v. Saab’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Wagenmann v. Adams (1987), Herbert A. Sullivan, Inc. v. Utica Mutual Insurance (2003)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 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 Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 17 Mass. App. Ct. 558 - Brown v. Gerstein · McLellan v. Fuller · 12 Mass. App. Ct. 597 - Glidden v. Terranova · 18 Mass. App. Ct. 76 - Fall River Savings Bank v. Callahan
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.
“where the claimed legal malpractice is so gross or obvious that laymen can rely on their common knowledge or experience to recognize or infer negligence from the facts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]xpert testimony is generally necessary to establish that the attorney failed to meet the standard of care owed by an attorney in a particular case.”
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.