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37 Colo. App. 541 - Weigel v. Hardesty’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

44
cited by 44 later decisions
3
states following
December 2016
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably D. H. v. People (1977), Mehaffy, Rider, Windholz & Wilson v. Central Bank Denver, N.A. (1995)

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 state decisions

19019761980199020002010decided

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 Enyart v. Orr · Allen v. First National Bank · Clinton v. Miller · 21 Ill. App. 2d 215 - Feiertag v. Reichmann · Barnes v. Spangler

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

  1. “[w]hile fulfilling his obligation to his client, [ ] is liable for injuries to third parties only when his conduct is fraudulent or malicious.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “An escrow relationship is essentially a three party contract. Generally it arises in the first instance by agreement between two parties concerning the delivery of an instrument upon the occurrence of a specified future condition. The instrument is thereafter deposited, by separate agreement, with an independent third party with instructions concerning its ultimate delivery.”
    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.