Helfand v. Gerson

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[t]he greater weight of federal authority . . . supports the position that judicial estoppel applies to a party’s stated . . . legal assertion”
• explaining that the plaintiff waived their challenge to defendant’s discovery objection by failing to bring a motion to compel
• explaining that the plaintiff waived their challenge to defendant’s discovery objection by failing to bring a motion to compel
• stating in an analogous Ninth Circuit case that, without a contract between the defendant-attorney and his client, which creates the lawyer’s duty, the third-party plaintiffs would have no legal malpractice claim
• \Courts have extended the right to sue for breach of contract to intended third-party beneficiaries.\
• failure to obtain information was plaintiffs’ fault when they did not challenge the 3 assertion of privilege or bring a motion to compel production

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Browning v. Levy
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-03-12· cited 280×
• Jackson v. County of Los Angeles
  California Court of Appeal· 1997-12-19· cited 217×
• Anfinson v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2012-07-19· cited 162×
• Mark A. Eubanks Teri Lynn Eubanks v. Cbsk Financial Group, Inc., D/B/A Am. Home Loans
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-10-01· cited 135×
• Blair v. Ing
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2001-09-10· cited 95×
• Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc. v. Marilyn Monroe LLC
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-08-30· cited 83×
• The American Civil Liberties U v. Catherine Masto
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-02-10· cited 82×
• Tyler v. Cuomo
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-12-15· cited 80×
• The Burlington Insurance Company v. Oceanic Design & Construction, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-09-08· cited 79×
• United States v. Elbert L. Sturdivant
  Second Circuit· 2001-03-19· cited 61×
• Estate of Hilda Ashman v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-10-26· cited 53×
• United States ex rel. Sequoia Orange Co. v. Baird-Neece Packing Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-06-19· cited 45×
• BancInsure, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance
  Tenth Circuit· 2015-08-06· cited 45×
• United States v. Ibrahim
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-04-14· cited 38×
• Leslie v. Estate of Tavares
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2000-02-28· cited 34×
• Opland v. Kiesgan
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1999-06-10· cited 34×
• Kona Enterprises, Inc. v. Estate Of Bernice Pauahi Bishop
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-10-06· cited 28×
• American General Finance, Inc. v. Tippins (In Re Tippins)
  N.D. Alabama· 1998-05-01· cited 27×
• Morgan County Hospital v. Upham
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-04-11· cited 27×
• Cricket Communications, Inc. v. Trillium Industries, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2007-10-09· cited 26×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lucas v. Hamm
  California Supreme Court· 1961-09-05· cited 444×
• Louis Eugene Russell v. Tom Rolfs, Superintendent
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-01-09· cited 343×
• Guy v. Liederbach
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-29· cited 333×
• Grady Allen v. Zurich Insurance Company
  Fourth Circuit· 1982-01-08· cited 309×
• In the Matter of Thomas v. Cassidy, Debtor-Appellant
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-02-05· cited 280×
• Harriet Rissetto v. Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 343, a Business Entity, Form Unknown, Michael Beavers and Does 1-25, Inclusive
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-08-29· cited 256×
• Patriot Cinemas, Inc. v. General Cinema Corp.
  First Circuit· 1987-11-24· cited 247×
• Athanasios Konstantinidis and Vasiliki Konstantinidis, His Wife v. C. N. Chen, M. D
  D.C. Circuit· 1980-02-21· cited 213×
• Faythe S. Takahashi and Hideo H. Takahashi v. Loomis Armored Car Service, and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-08-13· cited 135×
• John S. Clark Company v. Faggert & Frieden, P.C.
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-09-18· cited 126×
• Ginsburg v. Stern
  Supreme Court· 1962-02-19· cited 117×
• Larsen v. Pacesetter Systems, Inc.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1992-09-30· cited 110×
• Dawes v. First Insurance Co. of Hawai'i
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1994-10-12· cited 97×
• Dale A. Price, Plaintiff-Cross-Defendant-Appellant v. Thomas Seydel and Nalani Seydel, Husband and Wife, Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Appellees
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-04-24· cited 75×
• Schwarcz v. Schwarcz
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-01· cited 75×
• Higa v. Mirikitani
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1973-12-11· cited 52×
• Kulalani Ltd. v. Corey
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-01· cited 50×
• Hunt v. First Ins. Co. of Hawaii Ltd.
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1996-09-23· cited 46×
• Schulz v. Honsador, Inc.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1984-11-08· cited 41×
• Rockwell International Corporation, Rockwell Hanford Operations, a Delaware Corporation v. Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council, Etc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-07-12· cited 38×