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← 436 MASS 244 - Lyons v. Nutt

Lyons v. Nutt’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
2
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 6 district · 33 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Spinner v. Nutt · Miller v. Mooney · Williams v. Ely · Cantu v. St. Paul Companies · Hanover Insurance v. Leeds

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

  1. “doctrine has no application ... where the client actually knows that he suffers appreciable harm as a result of his attorney's conduct.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he statute of limitations applicable to a legal malpractice claim begins to run when a client 'knows or reasonably should know that he or she has sustained appreciable harm as a result of the lawyer's conduct.' . . . This is the so-called discovery rule.”
    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.