Titsworth v. Mondo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Where the termination is by settlement rather than by a dismissal or adverse judgment, malpractice by the attorney is more difficult to establish, but a cause of action can be made out if it is shown that assent by the client to the settlement was compelled because prior misfeasance or nonfeasance by the attorneys left no other recourse * * * * [The] cause of action for legal malpractice must stand or fall on its own merits with no automatic waiver of a plaintiff's right to sue for malpractice merely because plaintiff had voluntarily agreed to enter into a stipulation of settlement."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. John F. Kay, Jr., Trustee v. McGuireWoods, LLP · Parnell v. Ivy

2. “much force to defendant's argument that the plaintiff, having accepted a settlement substantially less than the amount sued for where there was virtually no issue of liability, may not now require a court to speculate as to what a jury would have awarded,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 319 F. Supp. 3d 741 - Prout v. Vladeck

3. “show[ing] that he settled only because no other alternative existed or that the settlement was improvident or was reluctantly agreed to by him because the previous actions by his attorneys left him with no alternative.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 319 F. Supp. 3d 741 - Prout v. Vladeck