Kessler v. Loftus’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2022
3 district · 4 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 Conley v. Gibson · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Bates v. State Bar of Arizona · Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar · Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn.
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.
“many jurisdictions differentiate between the commercial, entrepreneurial aspects of law and the legal, advisory, analytical aspects of law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n important distinction . . . between representations of legal opinions and representations of fact relating to the law as it exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Webb v. LeClair“professional judgment based upon his legal knowledge and skill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Webb v. LeClair
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.