162 Or. App. 546 - Roberts v. Fearey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 8 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “whether a trustee's attorney can be liable to the beneficiaries of the trust for legal malpractice.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 Or. App. 436 - Payne v. Kersten · Hendrick v. ABC Ins. Co.

2. “"Although Oregon has not formally adopted a discrete test, the cases in this area focus on whether there is a de facto relationship between the defendant and the injured nonclient of a nature that justifies imposing a special duty on the defendant to protect the nonclient against economic losses."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tomlinson v. Metropolitan Pediatrics, LLC

3. “when an attorney undertakes to represent a fiduciary, he or she represents only the fiduciary and does not, at the same time, maintain an attorney-client relationship with those to whom the fiduciary-client owes a duty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hendrick v. ABC Ins. Co.