Williams v. Preman’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘A lawyer is not liable in damages to his client for a mere error in judgment on a legal proposition concerning which enlightened legal minds may fairly differ. But the same degree of diligence is required of a lawyer that is required of other men employed to render services of a technical or scientific character; and if the error is such as to evince negligence he is liable.’ ” (quoting James Carr’s Executrix v. Glover, 70 Mo. App. 242, 247 [1897]).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bergstrom v. Noah

2. “[w]e do not agree ... that the Heartland case means that settlement necessarily forecloses the possibility of showing a causal link between the alleged negligence and the loss incurred by the settlement. Otherwise, the victim of the alleged malpractice is completely precluded from ever settling any underlying claim. The public policy of Missouri favors settlements.1[ 7 ]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roberts v. Sokol

3. “A plaintiff may be tempted to settle the underlying claim at any figure, believing that the responsibility for the damage will be passed on to the defendant at whatever the settlement figure may be. In such a case, then, the plaintiff must show what would have happened if the adversarial action had been tried rather than settled.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. M & D ENTERPRISES, INC. v. Wolff