Schauer v. Joyce’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably In Re Ah Robins Company Incorporated, Parler & Wobber v. Miles & Stockbridge, P.C. (2000)
8 federal appellate · 8 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.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“subject to liability for damages for the same ... injury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he relevant guestion under [the contribution statute] ... is not whether [the replacement attorney] owed a duty to [the original attorney], but whether [the attorneys] each owed a duty to [the plaintiff-client], and by breaching their respective duties contributed to her ultimate injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if Gent negligently failed to seek reinstatement of the vacated alimony judgment, as Joyce alleges, he may well be partially responsible for the loss of the alimony that had been due under that judgment prior to its vacatur.”
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.