Central Cab Co. v. Clarke

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, even without expert testimony, a jury could find that an attorney committed malpractice by failing to file a timely answer and allowing the entry of a default judgment against the client
• holding that, even without expert testimony, a jury could find that an attorney committed malpractice by failing to file a timely answer and allowing the entry of a default judgment against the client
• noting that in some attorney malpractice cases expert testimony is necessary, but holding that expert opinion testimony was not required in a case where the lawyer’s conduct was a “clear violation” of the duty of care owed to the client
• requiring no expert testimony to establish the standard of care in a legal malpractice case when the alleged breach was a lawyer’s failure to inform his client that he was terminating representation
• ordering additional proceedings where the client could prove that it had a meritorious defense in the underlying matter and thus the default judgment resulting from the attorney’s negligence was the proximate cause of the client’s damages
• failure to agree on payment of retainer does not preclude an attorney-client relationship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

50 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Flaherty v. Weinberg
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-05-28· cited 146×
• O'NEIL v. Bergan
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1982-10-21· cited 107×
• Albright v. Burns
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1986-01-16· cited 95×
• Thomas v. Corso
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-03-17· cited 81×
• Banegura v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-06-03· cited 79×
• Berman v. Rubin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-05-13· cited 77×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-02-22· cited 75×
• Hickox by and Through Hickox v. Holleman
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-01-21· cited 73×
• Baker v. Beal
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1975-01-22· cited 61×
• Attorney Grievance Commission v. Hodes
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-12-23· cited 56×
• Carlson v. Morton
  Montana Supreme Court· 1987-11-24· cited 52×
• Schultz v. Bank of America, N.A.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-03-12· cited 51×
• Berringer v. Steele
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-08-31· cited 51×
• Tormo v. Yormark
  D. New Jersey· 1975-05-12· cited 47×
• Homa v. Friendly Mobile Manor, Inc.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-09-09· cited 43×
• Fuschetti v. Bierman
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1974-04-30· cited 43×
• Thomas v. Bethea
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-10-09· cited 42×
• Glidden v. Terranova
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-11-13· cited 41×
• House v. Maddox
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-02-10· cited 41×
• Attorney Grievance Commission v. Shaw
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-07-09· cited 38×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jerome Atilus v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-01-28· cited 74×
• Johns Hopkins Hospital v. Genda
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1969-11-13· cited 56×
• Rural Educational Association v. Bush
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1956-11-30· cited 51×
• American Employers Insurance v. Goble Aircraft Specialties, Inc.
  New York Supreme Court· 1954-06-09· cited 50×
• Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. McConnaughy
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-02-23· cited 41×
• Fort Myers Seafood Packers, Inc. v. Steptoe and Johnson
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-09-22· cited 40×
• Pete v. Henderson
  California Court of Appeal· 1954-04-12· cited 40×
• Fredrickson v. MAW
  Utah Supreme Court· 1951-02-20· cited 32×
• Butts v. Watts
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1956-03-02· cited 32×
• Cochrane v. Little
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1889-11-14· cited 28×
• Isser v. Berg
  New York Supreme Court· 1963-04-02· cited 12×
• MacDermid v. MacDermid
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1950-05-02· cited 10×
• Kilmer v. Carter
  California Court of Appeal· 1969-06-17· cited 8×
• Mambrino v. State
  New York State Court of Claims· 1961-08-23· cited 7×
• Grittano v. Flannery
  New York Supreme Court· 1959-12-03· cited 5×
• Fort Dodge Portland Cement Corp. v. Rutledge
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1920-10-02· cited 5×
• Zitomer v. Holdsworth
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1961-12-15· cited 4×