Sam v. Balardo’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2018
2 federal appellate · 10 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attorney is called upon by his or her profession to make decisions that involve the exercise of independent professional judgment of essentially the same serious quality as those made by a physician, albeit involving a different expertise. Cf. Kambas [v. St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital of Detroit], 389 Mich. [249] 255-56 [ 205 N.W.2d 431 (1973)]. In our view, attorneys are deserving of the same protection afforded physicians, surgeons and dentists by the two-year malpractice period of limitations____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[L]iability for malpractice of members of state-licensed professions is to be determined by resort to the common law. Accordingly, the provisions of the [Revised Judicature Act, MCL 600.101 et seq . ] do not purport to create or limit the cause of action of malpractice to something other than what was recognized at common law.”
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.