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← 528 SO2D 1307 - Lafferty v. Tennant

Lafferty v. Tennant’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 1997
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Baker & Holmes Co. v. Indian River State Bank

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

  1. “because Dr. Tennant incurred no liability for attorney's fees [in that] ... the title insurance company involved in the real estate transaction giving rise to this action has funded the litigation on [his] behalf.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[s]ince the title insurance company is not a party to this action, it has established no basis for recognizing any liability on the part of [the defendant] to the title insurance company.”
    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.