Brown v. E. W. Bliss Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2000
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Myers v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · Paris Reizakis v. Albert E. Loy · Universal Film Exchanges, Inc. v. Lust · Schwarz v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The time has come for lawyers to be responsible for their mistakes and their lack of attention to their professional responsibilities. Doctors are held responsible for their mistakes in malpractice suits. Engineers and architects are regularly sued for errors which cost their clients money. Yet few are the attorney malpractice suits which are brought. And few will be brought if trial judges look the other way in the face of clear incompetence and regularly give attorneys another chance where they have disregarded schedules reasonably set for the disposition of litigation.”
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.