11 F. Supp. 2d 1 - Robinson v. Nussbaum’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2020
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc. · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The crux of the Beckman opinion fully supports this conclusion. There the Court of Appeals explained that its holding stemmed from two fundamental principles of partnership law. First, dissolution of a law partnership does not terminate existing contracts with its clients. And second, former partners who honor these existing contracts do so as fiduciaries for the benefit of the former partnership. From these principles, the court concluded that work performed after dissolution to resolve pending cases is conducted for the benefit of the dissolved law partnership. The nature of the underlying contractual relationship between the dissolved partnership and its client does not alter the legal status of a dissolved partnership nor does it change the fiduciary duties each partner must honor towards another. They remain the same regardless of how an attorney agrees to be compensated by his clients.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First and foremost, partners are free (indeed encouraged) to execute written partnership agreements which provide for an exact disposition of profits from hourly rate matters after dissolution. Second, the rule which the court establishes applies only to profits earned from work which finishes matters pending at the former law firm at the time of its dissolution. Profits earned by former partners on new matters brought into the firm after the date of dissolution, including new matters for clients of the dissolved law firm, are not the property of the dissolved partnership. Former partners are not forced to account for the fruits of business they acquired independently. Third, each and every partner finishing uncompleted client matters must account to the dissolved partnership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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