White v. Bayless’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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

1. “The public has an interest in “loyal, faithful and aggressive representation by the legal profession....” An attorney is thus charged with the duty of zealously representing his clients within the bounds of the law. In fulfilling this duty, an attorney “ha[s] the right to interpose any defense or supposed defense and make use of any right in behalf of such client or clients as [the attorney] deem[s] proper and necessary, without making himself subject to liability in damages.... ” Any other rule would act as a severe and crippling deterrent to the ends of justice for the reason that a litigant might be denied a full development of his case if his attorney were subject to the threat of liability for defending his client’s position to the best and fullest extent allowed by law, and availing his client of all rights to which he is entitled.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chapman Children's Trust v. Porter & Hedges, L.L.P.

2. “An attorney’s duties that arise from the attorney-client relationship are owed only to the client, not to third persons, such as adverse parties.”); Bradt v. West, 892 S.W.2d 56, 71-72 (Tex.App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 1994, writ denied) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. JJJJ Walker, LLC v. Yollick

3. “An attorney's duties that arise from the attorney-client relationship are owed only to the client, not to third persons, such as adverse parties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Estate of Nunu