Morris v. Geer’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Miller v. Byrne (1995), Brunacini v. Kavanagh (1993)
4 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand · City of Aurora v. Bechtel Corp. · Chocktoot v. Smith · Weisberg v. Williams, Connolly & Califano · Mastro v. Brodie
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[TIhe focus is on a plaintiffs knowledge of facts which would put a reasonable person on notice of the general nature of damage and that the damage was caused by the wrongful conduct of an attorney.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Mehaffy · Colburn v. Kopit“what is critical in determining when [an action] accrues is knowledge of the facts essential to the cause of action, not knowledge of the legal theory upon which an action may be brought”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The time when a plaintiff discovered, or through the use of reasonable dili-genee should have discovered, the negligent conduct is normally a question of fact which must be resolved by the trier of fact.”
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.