21 Cal. 3d 303 - Kirsch v. Duryea’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 31 Cal. 3d 637 - In Re Marriage of Flaherty (1982), 24 Cal. 4th 676 - Barner v. Leeds (2000)
6 district · 103 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm · Savings Bank v. Ward · 15 Cal. 3d 9 - Johansen v. California State Automobile Ass'n Inter-Insurance Bureau · 13 Cal. 3d 349 - Smith v. Lewis · 42 Cal. App. 3d 604 - Banerian v. O'MALLEY
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not sufficient to show that some or many prudent attorneys would not have made the mistake. The attorney's choice to honor the public obligation [to refrain from prosecuting meritless claims] must be shown to have been so manifestly erroneous that no prudent attorney would have done so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n attorney is often confronted with clashing obligations imposed by our system of justice. An attorney has an obligation not only to protect his client's interests but also to respect the legitimate interests of fellow members of the bar, the judiciary, and the administration of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`by accepting employment to give legal advice or to render other legal services, impliedly agrees to use such skill, prudence, and diligence as lawyers of ordinary skill and capacity commonly possess and exercise in the performance of the tasks which they undertake. [Citations.]'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Lusk
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.