Craft v. Burrow’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although some sufficient grant of authority is essential, an attorney employed to represent a party in litigation may usually confess, or consent to, judgment against his client if he has been expressly authorized to do so; and, according to many decisions, he has, merely by reason of his employment, the implied or apparent authority to take such action if he acts in good faith and without fraud or collusion, even in inferi- or courts not courts of record, and even though the judgment is based on, or is in effect, a compromise or settlement of the client’s rights or cause of action, unless there is fraud or a violation of the express instructions or wishes of the client to the knowledge of the adverse party or his counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Franklin v. BSL, Inc.

2. “an attorney agreeing to a judgment against his client is presumed to act with his client's consent and such judgment is ordinarily conclusive against the client.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Telephone Man, Inc. v. Hinds County