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.
“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“[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.