Dalo v. Kivitz’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Hendry v. Pelland (1996), 932 F. Supp. 2d 114 - Busby v. Capital One, N.A. (2013)
11 district · 13 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Hutto v. Finney · Hall v. Cole
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As with any tort action, legal malpractice liability is predicated on a finding that the injury was proximately caused by the breach of duty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“if that subsequent act reasonably could have”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“By contrast, an intervening act not reasonably foreseeable (sometimes referred to as a”
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.