Murphy v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Wheatley v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1994), Lyons v. Nutt (2002)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 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 Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter, NAACP · Attorney General v. Bailey · Hendrickson v. Sears · Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co. · White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recognizes that a person seeking professional assistance has a right to repose confidence in the professional's ability and good faith, and realistically cannot be expected to question and assess the techniques employed or the manner in which the services are rendered.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Black · Guzzi v. Shorton“tolls the statute of limitations in legal malpractice actions where the attorney in question continues to represent the plaintiff's interests in the matter in question”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall be commenced only within three years next after the cause of action accrues”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parr v. Rosenthal
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.