Rorrer v. Cooke’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Waddle v. Sparks (1992), Kituskie v. Corbman (1998)
5 federal appellate · 140 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 In re Watts · Lowe v. Bradford · Zimmerman v. Hogg & Allen, Professional Ass'n · Moore v. Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. · Williams v. Carolina Power & Light Co.
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [t]he original claim was valid; (2) [i]t would have resulted in a judgment in his favor; and (3) [t]he judgment would have been collectible.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) that the attorney breached the duties owed to his client . . . and that this negligence (2) proximately caused (3) damage to the plaintiff.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) he possesses the requisite degree of learning, skill, and ability necessary to the practice of his profession and which others similarly situated ordinarily possess; (2) he will exert his best judgment in the prosecution of the litigation entrusted to him; and (3) he will exercise reasonable and ordinary care and diligence in the use of his skill and in the application of his knowledge to his client’s cause. [Citations omitted.]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.