Baker v. Mallios’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2010
2 federal appellate · 5 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 101st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Gulbenkian v. Penn · 62 Cal. App. 3d 389 - Goodley v. Wank & Wank, Inc. · Triton Oil & Gas Corp. v. Marine Contractors and Supply, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. a market in malpractice claims may demean the legal profession; 2. a risk of collusion exists between the assignor and assignee; 8. assignability of legal malpractice claims may deter attorneys from zealous advocacy on behalf of their clients; 4. an assignment may cause legal services to be less available, especially to clients with inadequate insurance or assets; and 5. an illogical reversal of roles is inherent in allowing a party to sue the adverse party’s attorney.”
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.