Parker v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Parler & Wobber v. Miles & Stockbridge, P.C. (2000), Holland v. Thacher (1988)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 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 13 Cal. 3d 804 - Nga Li v. Yellow Cab Co. · 20 Cal. 3d 578 - American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior Court · 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm · 18 Cal. 3d 335 - Goodman v. Kennedy · Bruce 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasons of policy preclude a lawyer's liability by way of cross-complaint for indemnity for damage to his own client in the course of action against the cross-complaining adversary. The potential of conflict between the client's best interest and the course which the lawyer must take to minimize his own exposure to a cross-complaint from the adversary is untenable in view of the lawyer's duty of undivided loyalty to his client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unexamined and unpersuasive hypothesis ... that ... an attorney's liability to third parties for negligence ... will inhibit an attorney's best representation of his client even in a situation where there is no conflict between the interest of the client and the third party”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Lawyer II should not be required to face a potential conflict between the course which is in his client's best interest and the course which would minimize his exposure to the cross-complaint of lawyer I”
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.