9 Cited authorities

  1. Carvell v. Bottoms

    900 S.W.2d 23 (Tenn. 1995)   Cited 851 times
    Holding that judicial estoppel doctrine did not apply when malpractice action was filed during pendency of related litigation
  2. Shadrick v. Coker

    963 S.W.2d 726 (Tenn. 1998)   Cited 311 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the statute of limitations begins to run when plaintiffs have "not only an awareness of the injury," but also knowledge of "the tortious origin or wrongful nature of that injury"
  3. Sullivan v. Baptist Memorial Hospital

    995 S.W.2d 569 (Tenn. 1999)   Cited 189 times
    Rejecting compelled self-publication defamation
  4. Cardiac Anesthesia Servs., PLLC v. Jones

    385 S.W.3d 530 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2012)   Cited 44 times
    Holding that the plaintiff suffered damage in the form of the inconvenience and expense of defending a motion for summary judgment as a result of the attorney's negligence
  5. Smith v. Petkoff

    919 S.W.2d 595 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1996)   Cited 23 times
    Holding that plaintiff suffered "actual injury" or "legally cognizable injury" on date statute of limitations ran as to underlying claim
  6. Honeycutt v. Wilkes

    No. W2007-00185-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Aug. 2, 2007)   Cited 7 times
    Holding that a wife suffered an actual injury—prior to the entry of final judgment—in a legal malpractice claim, when she was forced to defend against her ex-husband's petition to terminate her alimony because of her divorce attorney's advice regarding a cohabitation clause in the marital dissolution agreement
  7. Bellar v. Baptist Hospital, Inc.

    559 S.W.2d 788 (Tenn. 1978)   Cited 36 times
    Construing section 203
  8. Wilson v. Mathes

    15 S.W.3d 865 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2000)   Cited 6 times
    In Wilson, this Court concluded that the facts did not support a finding that the plaintiff "knew he had suffered an injury as a result of [the attorney's] conduct prior to the Court of Appeals affirmation of the trial court's dismissal."
  9. Section 28-3-104 - Personal tort actions; actions against certain professionals

    Tenn. Code § 28-3-104   Cited 1,589 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Setting forth one-year statute of limitations for § 1983 claims