Murphy v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• describing applicability of continuing representation doctrine “where the attorney in question continues to represent the plaintiffs interests in the matter in question”
• cause of action governed by discovery rule but continuous representation rule tolls the statute of limitations until attorney’s termination
• plaintiffs unaware of attorney’s purportedly improper certification of good record title until receipt of letter from neighbor’s attorney
• the continuing representation doctrine “tolls the statute of limitations in legal malpractice actions where the attorney in question continues to represent the plaintiffs interests in the matter in question”
• neighbor's letter that asserted conflicting legal right to property was sufficient notice of attorney's potential negligence in certifying good record title
• statute of limitations in legal malpractice cases tolled where attorney in question continues to represent the clients’ interests in the matter in question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wheatley v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-07-19· cited 132×
• Lyons v. Nutt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-07· cited 52×
• International Strategies Group, Ltd. v. Greenberg Traurig, LLP
  First Circuit· 2007-03-30· cited 36×
• Spilios v. Cohen
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-04-05· cited 35×
• Vinci v. Byers
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-11-21· cited 20×
• Frankston v. Denniston
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-06-05· cited 20×
• Parr v. Rosenthal
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-09-02· cited 17×
• Rosen Construction Ventures, Inc. v. Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.
  First Circuit· 2004-04-16· cited 16×
• Eck v. Kellem
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-06-13· cited 14×
• Locicero v. Leslie
  D. Massachusetts· 1996-11-14· cited 9×
• Swasey v. Barron
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-01-12· cited 8×
• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Wissenschaften E v. v. Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC
  D. Massachusetts· 2010-09-14· cited 7×
• Morson v. Kreindler & Kreindler, LLP
  E.D. New York· 2011-09-28· cited 6×
• RTR Technologies, Inc. v. Helming
  D. Massachusetts· 2011-09-19· cited 5×
• Key Trust Co. v. Doherty, Wallace, Pillsbury & Murphy, P.C.
  D. Massachusetts· 1993-01-28· cited 2×
• Parr v. Rosenthal
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-08-07· cited 2×
• Cormier v. Deren
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1997-11-05· cited 2×
• Cambridge Biotech Corp. v. Deliotte & Touche
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1997-01-28· cited 1×
• Lyons ex rel. Robin Damon Trust v. Nutt
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2000-08-15· cited 1×
• Molleur v. Bucknam
  Vermont Superior Court· 2015-05-29

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Attorney General v. Bailey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-02· cited 335×
• Hendrickson v. Sears
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-04-09· cited 260×
• Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-08-06· cited 243×
• White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-05-05· cited 205×
• Friedman v. Jablonski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-12-16· cited 155×
• Greene v. Greene
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-05-18· cited 146×
• Olsen v. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-02-15· cited 130×
• Schoenrock v. Tappe
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1988-01-27· cited 67×
• Cantu v. St. Paul Companies
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-11-03· cited 65×
• McCormick v. Romans
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-08-30· cited 56×
• Bailey v. Bellotti
  Supreme Court· 1982-11-01· cited 52×
• Massachusetts Electric Co. v. Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple, P.C.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-03-13· cited 43×
• Succession of Smith v. Kavanaugh, Pierson and Talley
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1990-06-26· cited 19×
• Salin v. Shalgian
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1984-08-09· cited 14×