Loder v. . Whelpley’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1975 · most notably Harrison v. Sutter Street Railway (1897), Thompson v. Ish (1889)
4 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
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 In Re the Probate of the Will of Smith · Children's Aid Society v. . Loveridge · Westover v. . Aetna Life Ins. Co. · Gardiner v. Gardiner · Schenck v. . Dart
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A lawyer, in receiving the directions or instructions of one intending to make a will, is confided in by reason of his professional character as a counselor, and he acts in that capacity, although asking no questions, and without advising; he does nothing more than to reduce those directions to writing. The relation, therefore, ‘between the testatrix and the witness was that of client and attorney.” .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. Courtright““An attorney or counselor at law shall not be allowed to disclose a communication made by his client to him or his advice given thereon in the course of his professional employment.” (Code Civ. Proc. N. Y.y sec. 835.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Young's Estate
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.