Nelson v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• a purported violation of ethical standards by an attorney does not give rise to a cause of action against the attorney by a third party
• traditional rule is that an attorney will be held liable for negligence only to his or her client
• voluntary dismissal without prejudice may be favorable termination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-05-03· cited 953×
• Tri-State Hospital Supply Corp. v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 2003-09-02· cited 124×
• Beecy v. Pucciarelli
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-11-09· cited 118×
• Sampson v. Hunt
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-06-10· cited 102×
• Lindenman v. Umscheid
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-06-03· cited 100×
• OMI Holdings, Inc. v. Howell
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-06-07· cited 81×
• Pancake House, Inc. v. Redmond Ex Rel. Redmond
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1986-03-28· cited 80×
• Vallinoto v. DiSandro
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-02-11· cited 77×
• Bob Godfrey Pontiac, Inc. v. Roloff
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1981-07-08· cited 71×
• Garcia v. Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A.
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1988-02-09· cited 70×
• Wong v. Tabor
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1981-07-08· cited 60×
• Akinaka v. Disciplinary Board of the Hawai'i Supreme Court
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1999-06-30· cited 53×
• Hunt v. Dresie
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-02-12· cited 46×
• Elliot H. Himmelfarb, M.D. v. Tracy R. Allain
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-08-28· cited 43×
• Bank IV Wichita, National Ass'n v. Arn, Mullins, Unruh, Kuhn & Wilson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1992-02-28· cited 43×
• Wong v. Panis
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1989-05-04· cited 42×
• In Re Landrith
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-12-09· cited 42×
• Berry v. National Medical Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2011-08-12· cited 39×
• Ford Motor Cred. Co. v. Suburban Ford
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-05-10· cited 36×
• Fillmore v. Ordonez
  D. Kansas· 1993-07-29· cited 33×

Cites

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

• Martin v. Trevino
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-29· cited 114×
• Brody v. Ruby
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-06-28· cited 98×
• Norton v. Hines
  California Court of Appeal· 1975-07-15· cited 88×
• Lyddon v. Shaw
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-01-23· cited 76×
• Thompson v. General Finance Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1970-04-11· cited 60×
• Bickel v. MacKie
  N.D. Iowa· 1978-04-04· cited 60×
• Hill v. Willmott
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1978-01-27· cited 59×
• Spencer v. Burglass
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1976-08-31· cited 51×
• Daniel L. Tappen, M. D. v. Law Lamar Ager, M. D.
  Tenth Circuit· 1979-05-25· cited 41×
• Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp. v. Elgin Coal, Inc.
  E.D. Tennessee· 1972-08-23· cited 40×
• Rinsley v. Frydman
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1977-01-22· cited 40×
• Young v. Hecht
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1979-07-13· cited 36×
• Pantone v. Demos
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-04-14· cited 35×
• Messinger v. Fulton
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1953-01-24· cited 35×
• Stalker v. Drake
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1913-12-06· cited 31×
• Braun v. Pepper
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-05-06· cited 20×
• Vaughan v. Hornaman
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1965-07-10· cited 17×
• Carbondale Investment Co. v. Burdick
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1903-06-06· cited 17×
• Walker v. Smay
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1921-03-12· cited 13×
• Carnegie v. Gage Furniture, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1975-07-17· cited 12×