DeBakey v. Staggs

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that an attorney unconscionably took advantage of a client to a grossly unfair degree when the attorney failed to obtain in a timely manner a name change for the client’s minor child
• purchase or acquisition of legal services covered by deceptive trade practices act
• purchase or acquisition of legal services covered by deceptive trade practices act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Latham v. Castillo
  Texas Supreme Court· 1998-08-25· cited 240×
• Heslin v. Connecticut Law Clinic of Trantolo & Trantolo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-06-28· cited 174×
• Short v. Demopolis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-11-06· cited 134×
• Zidell v. Bird
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-22· cited 116×
• Thompson v. Vinson & Elkins
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1993-08-05· cited 73×
• Frahm v. Urkovich
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-03-31· cited 65×
• Nelson v. Ho
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1997-05-15· cited 48×
• Barnard v. Mecom
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-02-03· cited 27×
• Lucas v. Nesbitt
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-28· cited 25×
• Holliday, W. David v. Weaver, Greg and Wendy Weaver
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2013-08-20· cited 8×
• Lorenzo Reyes Martinez v. Herbert C. Martinez, Real Estate Executives of Austin, LLC And Texas American Title Company D/B/A Independence Title Company
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2020-10-01
• Parks v. Palmer
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1981-07-17

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Snyders Smart Shop, Inc. v. Santi, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-18· cited 11×