Marrs v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Steelvest, Inc. v. Scansteel Service Center, Inc. · 34 Cal. App. 3d 858 - Merritt v. Reserve Insurance · Paintsville Hospital Co. v. Rose · 122 Wis. 2d 94 - Helmbrecht v. St. Paul Insurance · Phillips v. Clancy
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that there was an employment relationship with the defendant/attorney; (2) that the attorney neglected his duty to exercise the ordinary care of a reasonably competent attorney acting in the same or similar circumstances; and (3) that the attorney’s negligence was the proximate cause of damage to the client.”
4 later decisions 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.