Glover v. Southard’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2016
1 district · 10 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 Davidson v. Dill · University of Denver v. Whitlock · Taco Bell, Inc. v. Lannon · McDonald v. Lakewood Country Club · Perreira v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is in the public's best interest to protect attorneys from potentially unlimited lHability to third parties whose interests may interfere with the attorney's ability to fulfill the duties of undivided loyalty and ad-voeacy owed to his or her client. Thus, in drafting testamentary instruments at the behest of a client, an attorney should not be burdened with potential liability to possible beneficmrles of such instruments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“rests upon three public policy bases: the protection of the attorney’s duty of loyalty to and effective advocacy for his or her client; the nature of the potential for adversarial relationships between the attorney and third parties; and the attorney’s potential for unlimited liability if his duty of care is extended to third parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is in the public's best interest to protect attorneys from potentially unlimited liability to third parties whose interests may interfere with the attorney's ability to fulfill the duties of undivided loyalty and advocacy owed to his or her client.”
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.