Birnholz v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably 565 So. 2d 1323 - Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. v. Lane (1990), 520 So. 2d 58 - Haghayegh v. Clark (1988)
24 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 Green v. State · Florida Bar · Watson v. Dorsey · 279 So. 2d 851 - Edwards v. Ford · Downing v. Vaine
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) WITHIN TWO YEARS. (a) An action for professional malpractice, other than medical malpractice, whether founded on contract or tort; provided that the period of limitations shall run from the time the cause of action is discovered or should have been discovered with the exercise of due diligence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“negligence of his attorneys and not of his injury or damages. Id. at 377 . The court then stated that the essential elements of a cause of action accrue when the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the event which triggers the running of the statute of limitations is notice to or knowledge by the injured party that a cause of action has accrued in his favor, and not the date on which the negligent act which caused the damages was actually committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowe v. Schreiber
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.