Sirott v. Latts’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2011
1 federal appellate · 19 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 5 Cal. 3d 584 - Serrano v. Priest · 6 Cal. 3d 195 - Budd v. Nixen · 14 Cal. 3d 815 - Buckaloo v. Johnson · 222 Cal. App. 3d 1371 - Careau & Co. v. Security Pacific Business Credit, Inc. · 2 Cal. 4th 606 - Laird v. Blacker
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action against an attorney for a wrongful act or omission, other than for actual fraud, arising in the performance of professional services shall be commenced within one year after the plaintiff discovers, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the facts constituting the wrongful act or omission, or four years from the date of the wrongful act or omission, whichever occurs first.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] client suffers damage when he is compelled, as a result of the attorney's error, to incur or pay attorney fees,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did not exceed the ... premium plaintiff would have been required to pay had he not followed defendants' advice”
1 later decision 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.