Duerr v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
22 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 334th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Valence Operating Co. v. Dorsett · MacK Trucks, Inc. v. Tamez · Southwestern Electric Power Co. v. Grant · Horizon/CMS Healthcare Corporation v. Auld
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen cases refer to `legal malpractice' or `a legal malpractice claim,' often they are referring to a negligence claim in which the issue is whether the attorney exercised that degree of care, skill, and diligence as attorneys of ordinary skill and knowledge commonly possess and exercise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“present a claim that goes beyond what traditionally has been characterized as legal malpractice,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finger v. Ray“merely reassert the same claim for legal malpractice under an alternative label.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finger v. Ray
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.