Maynard v. Caballero’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2014
2 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 34th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Sutherland v. United States · Black Lake Pipe Line Co. v. Union Construction Co. · United States v. Sutherland · Terry v. Zachry · Lewisville State Bank v. Blanton
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the nature of the actor’s conduct; (b) the actor’s motive; (c) the interests of the other with which the actor’s conduct interferes; (d) the interests sought to be advanced by the actor; (e) the social interests (in one party’s actions and the others contract); (f) the proximity or remoteness of the actor’s conduct to the interference; and (g) the relations between the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The public has an interest in “loyal, faithful and aggressive representation by the legal profession....” An attorney is thus charged with the duty of zealously representing his clients within the bounds of the law. In fulfilling this duty, an attorney “ha[s] the right to interpose any defense or supposed defense and make use of any right in behalf of such client or clients as [the attorney] deemfs] proper and necessary, without making himself subject to liability in damages.... ” Any other rule would act as a severe and crippling deterrent to the ends of justice for the reason that a litigant might be denied a full development of his case if his attorney were subject to the threat of liability for defending his client’s position to the best and fullest extent allowed by law, and availing his client of all rights to which he is entitled.”
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.