Moore v. Fellner’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent (1972), Kim v. Comptroller of Treasury (1998)
37 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 48 Cal. 2d 528 - Arenson v. National Automobile & Casualty Insurance · Radar v. Rogers · Jones v. Martin · Salopek v. Schoemann · Oliver v. Campbell
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As declared in Salopek v. Schoemann (1942), supra, 20 Cal.2d 150,153 [1], 155[3], 124 P.2d 21 , “if an attorney is discharged for sufficient cause he is entitled to no more than the reasonable value of his services rendered prior to his discharge,” has “no cause to complain and is fully protected by payment of the reasonable value,” and may not recover the full contract amount (at least if such amount exceeds the reasonable value of the services). On the other hand in a case in which the discharge appears to have been without cause, it has been held that where the contract amount is less than the reasonable value of the services, recovery is nevertheless limited to the fee fixed by the contract. (See Oliver v. Campbell (1954), supra, 43 Cal.2d 298, 306 [9], 273 P.2d 15 .) In the present case plaintiff sought and was awarded judgment based on reasonable value. Under the rules above stated his recovery must not, of course, exceed the fee fixed by the employment contract, less expenses to which the client (defendant) was put by the change of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an attorney who wrongfully abandons or withdraws from a case which he has contracted to handle, or has been discharged for cause by the client, may not recover compensation [citations].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“this approach appears to have grown in part from situations in which the contract of employment was considered to be entire and indivisible.”
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.