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← 263 Va. 176 - O'CONNELL v. Bean

O'CONNELL v. Bean’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

64
cited by 64 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

2 district · 49 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Kamlar Corp. v. Haley · Oleyar v. Kerr, Trustee · Zedd v. Jenkins · Lockheed Information Management Systems Co. v. Maximus, Inc. · Ortiz v. Barrett

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

  1. “an action for the negligence of an attorney in the performance of professional services, while sounding in tort, is an action for breach of contract....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “`exercise a reasonable degree of care, skill, and dispatch in carrying out the business for which [the attorney] is employed.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the contractually implied duties of due care and fiduciary responsibility employ tort concepts,”
    1 later decision 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.