Vollgraff v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2012
2 district · 6 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Partnership dissolution doers not discharge a partner from obligations existing prior to dissolution, but only as to obligations arising after dissolution. It is apparently movant’s argument that dissolution of the firm releases him from any liability in malpractice occurring after dissolution with respect to the firm’s clients. As to ordinary business relationships between partnerships and third persons, this may be so. However, the relationship between a law partnership and its clients is not an ordinary business relationship, it is a fiduciary relationship and requires a high degree of fidelity and good faith.... [T]he Court holds that mere dissolution of the defendants’ law partnership was ineffective to terminate the partners’ obligations as attorneys toward partnership clients.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.