Lorash v. Epstein’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Ereth v. Cascade County (2003), Durbin v. Ross (1996)
41 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 Christy v. Saliterman · Carlson v. Morton · Brohman v. State · Shapero v. Fliegel · Schneider v. Leaphart
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[M]ust initially establish the existence of an attorney-client relationship. The plaintiff must then establish that the acts constituting the negligence ... occurred, proximately causing damages to the plaintiff. The final requirement for the plaintiff is the need to establish, ‘[t]hat “but for” such negligence ... the client would have been successful in the prosecution or defense of the action.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Attorney malpractice is professional negligence. In order to recover in a professional negligence action, "the plaintiff must prove that the professional owed him a duty, and that the professional failed to live up to that duty, thus causing damages to the plaintiff."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.