Starr v. Mooslin’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably 8 Cal. 4th 992 - Flowers v. Torrance Memorial Hospital Medical Center (1994), 181 Cal. App. 3d 954 - Fox v. Pollack (1986)
30 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 59 Cal. 2d 295 - Amaya v. Home Ice, Fuel & Supply Co. · Mosley v. Arden Farms Co. · 258 Cal. App. 2d 136 - Lysick v. Walcom · 241 Cal. App. 2d 520 - Ishmael v. Millington · 125 Cal. App. 2d 578 - Basin Oil Co. v. Baash-Ross Tool Co.
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.
“the legal malpractice suit is but one variety of negligence action, governed by the general doctrines of pleading and proof prevailing in negligence actions. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but where reasonable men will not dispute the absence of causality, the court may take the decision from the jury and treat the question as one of law”
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.