Oregon State Bar v. Security Escrows, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably State v. Buyers Service Co. (1987), 96 Wash. 2d 443 - Hagan & Van Camp, P.S. v. Kassler Escrow, Inc. (1981)
2 district · 20 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 Columbia Life Ins. v. Tousey · Rhode Island Bar Ass'n v. Lesser · State v. Chamberlain · 212 Mo. App. 467 - Marker v. Cleveland
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an intelligent choice between alternative methods.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““For the purposes of this case [involving the drafting of land conveyance documents], we hold that the practice of law includes the drafting or selection of documents and the giving of advice in regard thereto any time an informed or trained discretion must be exercised in the selection or drafting of a document to meet the needs of the persons being served.... [A]ny exercise of an intelligent choice, or an informed discretion in advising another of his legal rights and duties, will bring the activity within the practice of the profession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whether [the] ... defendants lawfully may draft such instruments as contracts, deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, leases, options, certificates of assumed business name, bulk-sales affidavits, and the like....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taub v. Weber
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.