Theobald v. Byers

How courts have described this case

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

• contributory negligence is a defense in attorney malpractice action, but failure to consult second attorney to verify what first was hired to do is insufficient as a matter of law to support the defense
• “Doctors and dentists are held to this higher standard of care and their services can also be said to be of a fiduciary and confidential nature. Hence it would seem clear that similar rules of law would be applicable to all three professions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand
  California Supreme Court· 1971-12-02· cited 371×
• Conklin v. Weisman
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1996-07-18· cited 198×
• Gorski v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-30· cited 128×
• Walker v. Bangs
  Washington Supreme Court· 1979-11-01· cited 84×
• Berman v. Rubin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-05-13· cited 77×
• Hansen v. Wightman
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1975-08-04· cited 63×
• Clark v. Rowe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-11-06· cited 47×
• Cook, Flanagan & Berst v. Clausing
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-03-21· cited 43×
• McDow v. Dixon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-04-06· cited 43×
• Commercial Standard Title Co. v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-05-11· cited 43×
• Winter v. Brown Ex Rel. Brown
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-11-01· cited 40×
• 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×
• Hacker v. Holland
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-04-30· cited 33×
• James Carmel, Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of Emil Stavriotis and Judith Stavriotis v. Clapp & Eisenberg, P.C., and Gerald Litwin
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-04-06· cited 28×
• Tarleton v. Arnstein & Lehr
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-08-19· cited 27×
• Woodruff v. Tomlin
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-02-22· cited 24×
• Feil v. Wishek
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1971-12-16· cited 22×
• Corceller v. Brooks
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1977-05-17· cited 21×
• Cook v. Irion
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1966-11-23· cited 21×