Towns v. Frey’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
October 2007
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Long v. Buckley · Yazzie v. Olney, Levy, Kaplan & Tenner
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f one is going to assert a breach of contract claim against a lawyer, the contract relied upon must itself contain an undertaking to do the thing for the nonperformance of which the action is brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Wadsworth“file a lawsuit, if necessary, and to achieve satisfactory results,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Wadsworth
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.