Joan Woodruff v. Hewitt P. Tomlin, Jr.’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 1019 · 1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 2 Cal. 4th 606 - Laird v. Blacker (1992), Woodruff v. Tomlin (1980)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Teeters v. Currey · Bland v. Smith · Albert v. Sherman · Hodge v. Service Machine Co. · 57 Tenn. App. 10 - Frazor v. Osborne
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relationship of attorney and client did not end on the date of the oral argument; it certainly continued until after the Court of Appeals decided the case ... Until the case was finally terminated and a final judgment rendered the plaintiffs could not prove damage, because the Court of Appeals might have granted a new trial, and on retrial a different result could possibly have occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o cause of action accrued until after the plaintiffs discovered or could reasonably have discovered the malpractice and until after the judgment ... had become final. The judgment did not become final until the Court of Appeals decided the appeal and the time to appeal to the [state] Supreme Court ... had expired.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“28-304. Personal tort actions — Mal practice of attorneys — Civil rights actions— Statutory penalties — Actions for libel, for injuries to the person, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, criminal conversa tion, seduction, breach of marriage promise, actions and suits against attorneys for malpractice whether said actions are grounded or based in contract or tort, civil actions for compensatory or punitive damages, or both, brought under the federal civil rights statutes, and actions for statutory penalties shall be commenced within one (1) year after cause of action accrued. For the purpose of this section, insofar as products liability cases are concerned, the cause of action for injury to the person shall accrue on the date of the personal injury not the date of the negligence or the sale of a product and in said products cases no person shall be deprived of his right to maintain his cause of action until one (1) year from the date of his injury and under no circumstances shall his cause of action be barred before he sustains an injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.