Greathouse v. McConnell

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that although client alleged separate and distinct causes of action, crux of each claim was that attorney did not provide adequate legal representation
• noting that plaintiff’s DTPA cause of action against former attorney was impermissible attempt to “fracture” legal-malpractice claim into another cause of action
• complaint that lawyer misrepresented legal services would be of competent quality when they were not constituted a negligence claim and not a DTPA claim
• misrepresentations alleged as claims for breach of fiduciary-duty, fraud, breach of contract, and others, interpreted as claims for legal malpractice because complaint was that lawyer did not provide adequate legal representation
• when the crux of complaint is failure to provide adequate legal representation, the claim asserts legal malpractice
• complaint that lawyer misrepresented legal services would be of competent quality when they were not constituted a negligence claim and not a DTPA claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Levine v. Katz
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2006-07-13· cited 327×
• Streber v. Hunter
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-08-04· cited 171×
• Goffney v. Rabson
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-10-25· cited 124×
• Duerr v. Brown
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-07-03· cited 119×
• Jose L. Elizondo and Guillermina Elizondo v. Ronald D. Krist, the Krist Law Firm, P.C., Kevin D. Krist, and William T. Wells
  Texas Supreme Court· 2013-08-30· cited 118×
• Beck v. LAW OFFICES OF EDWIN J. TERRY, JR.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-05-01· cited 115×
• Murphy v. Gruber
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2007-12-13· cited 106×
• Kimleco Petroleum, Inc. v. Morrison & Shelton
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2003-01-09· cited 96×
• Stanfield v. Neubaum
  Texas Supreme Court· 2016-06-24· cited 84×
• Wright v. Sydow
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-11-24· cited 69×
• Swinehart v. Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-06-07· cited 65×
• Williams v. Briscoe
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-03-18· cited 58×
• Trousdale v. Henry
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-06-24· cited 54×
• Aiken v. Hancock
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2003-07-16· cited 53×
• Fields v. Teamsters Local Union No. 988
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2000-07-20· cited 49×
• Rangel v. Lapin
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-04-28· cited 43×
• Grider v. Mike O'Brien, P.C.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-05-08· cited 42×
• In Re Ramsey
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-08-03· cited 39×
• Hoover v. Larkin
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-04-27· cited 35×
• Finger v. Ray
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-08-30· cited 31×