Downing v. Howe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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

1. “The Missouri Supreme Court has held: Generally, actions of a party’s attorney, including procedural neglect that precludes a client’s substantive rights, are imputed to the client. The rule attributing an attorney’s neglect to the party is a harsh rule .... The consequence of not imputing the neglect to the party, however, is to excuse the attorney of professional negligence, an excuse the law does not and cannot countenance. A narrow exception to the rule imputing an attorney’s neglect to a client applies when an attorney abandons a client without notice. Negligence is not equivalent to abandonment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Frontenac Bank v. GB Investments, LLC