Cicorelli v. Capobianco

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the plaintiffs, who were sophisticated real estate developers, were not contributorily negligent in a real estate transaction because they hired defendant to represent them based on his superior knowledge of the legal issues involved
• looking to the rulings of other jurisdictions to determine appropriate circumstances for considering a client’s contributory negligence as a defense in a legal malpractice action
• real estate developer not contributorily negligent for failing to pursue rezoning and pay property taxes where attorney ad vised that had no further obligations under contract
• experienced real estate broker plaintiffs in legal malpractice action not at fault

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gorski v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-30· cited 128×
• Arnav Industries, Inc. Retirement Trust v. Brown
  New York Court of Appeals· 2001-06-05· cited 105×
• Barnett v. Schwartz
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2007-12-11· cited 46×
• Somma v. Gracey
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1988-08-02· cited 40×
• Kay Pinkham v. John A. Burgess, Kay I. Pinkham v. John A. Burgess
  First Circuit· 1991-05-22· cited 38×
• Marks Polarized Corp. v. Solinger & Gordon
  New York Supreme Court· 1984-05-22· cited 12×
• Cicorelli v. Capobianco
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1982-10-25· cited 10×
• Caiati v. Kimel Funding Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-10-30· cited 10×
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. Donald P. Ferguson
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-12-08· cited 7×
• Reliance National Indemnity Company v. Alston Jennings, Jr. Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, a Partnership
  Eighth Circuit· 1999-08-10· cited 6×
• Federal Deposit Insurance v. Ferguson
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-08-08· cited 5×
• Farrauto v. Keowongwan
  Yonkers City Court· 1995-08-23· cited 2×
• TCW/Camil Holding L.L.C. v. Fox Horan & Camerini L.L.P. (In Re TCW/Camil Holding L.L.C.)
  D. Delaware· 2005-08-24
• Reliance Natl. v. Alston Jennings
  Eighth Circuit· 1999-08-10

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schauer v. Joyce
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-10-22· cited 104×
• De Long Corp. v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1964-07-10· cited 29×
• Feil v. Wishek
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1971-12-16· cited 22×
• Dunn v. Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn & Queens, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1976-12-06· cited 12×
• De Long Corp. v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1963-12-17· cited 9×
• Ferrara v. Leventhal
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1977-04-04· cited 8×
• Titsworth v. Mondo
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1980-01-24· cited 3×