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
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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.
“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“[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 passagee.g. Aspen v. Bayless
How this case has been treated — in progress
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