37 Colo. App. 217 - Anderson v. Kenelly’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Bowling v. Heil Co. (1987), Dairyland Insurance v. Drum (1977)
1 district · 34 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 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent · Bryant v. Hand · Enyart v. Orr · Brillhart v. Hudson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determine the reasonableness of the terms thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Here, the "dispute" over payment of the insurance proceeds was caused by confusion concerning the date of the husband's enlistment. Little skill or effort was required to obtain the correct information. Had the parties been aware of the correct date of enlistment, it is unlikely that the contingent fee contract would even have been considered, much less agreed to. When this error became apparent to the attorney, and he saw that the express language of the insurance policy mandated payment, and when such payment was immediately forthcoming, his proper course of action would have been to reduce his fee. Faced with his failure so to do, the trial court properly reviewed this contract and determined from the evidence that it was "unconscionable, unreasonable, and unfair," and reduced the fee,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unconscionable, unreasonable, and unfair,”
1 later decision 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.