Clark v. Grigson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1994
2 federal appellate · 13 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 North Carolina Natural Gas Corp. v. McJunkin Corp. · Reagan v. Guardian Life Insurance · Wilson v. Scott · Runge v. Franklin · Bailey v. McGill
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Consequently, we hold that no civil liability exists on the part of an expert witness who forms an opinion and states that opinion in the course of his testimony in a judicial proceeding, even though he may have been negligent in the process. Snyder v. Faget, 295 Ala. 197 , 326 So.2d 113, 115 (1976); Bencomo v. Morgan, 210 So.2d 236, 237 (Fla.App.1968); Bailey v. McGill, 247 N.C. 286 , 100 S.E.2d 860, 867 (1957); Dunbar v. Greenlaw, 152 Me. 270 , 128 A.2d 218, 223 (1956).” Clark, supra, at p. 265.”
3 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.