Barnes v. Lyles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““... Plaintiff’s attorneys charge defendant with negligence in the performance of his duty to her in failing to answer Hay’s complaint, either for himself or for her, without suggesting, however, any defense which he could have interposed with reasonable probability of success. An attorney or trustee is under no duty to interpose an unmeritorious or frivolous defense for his client or cestui que trust.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Seven G Ranching Co. v. Stewart Title & Trust