Held v. Arant’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably 136 Wis. 2d 304 - Green Spring Farms v. Kersten (1987), 181 Cal. App. 3d 954 - Fox v. Pollack (1986)
72 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 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm · Heyer v. Flaig · 227 Cal. App. 2d 69 - Herrero v. Atkinson · Roberts v. Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz · Norton v. Hines
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, however, an attorney is retained to represent the interests of his [or her] client against persons who are actual or potential adversaries, the possibility that one of those adversaries may seek indemnity from the attorney if he [or she] is held liable to the client can impinge upon the undivided loyalty owed by counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an attorney's liability for negligence, like that of all other persons, is limited by the concept of duty. The lawyer's duty of care extends only to the intended beneficiaries of his action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“another lawyer subsequently retained by the suing client in the same matter on the theory that the second lawyer's negligence enhanced rather than reduced the initial loss.”
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.