Ratzlaff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1992
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Vogel v. Gruaz · Michael v. Matson · Board of Com'rs of Rogers County v. Baxter · Ratzlaff v. State · Libby v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The m6re fact that a communication is made to an attorney does not, of itself, make such communication privileged. To have that effect, it must have been made in confidence of the relation and under such circumstances as to imply that it should forever remain a secret in the breast of the confidential advisor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howsley v. Clark““ ... It is perfectly clear that the conversation under consideration between the complaining witness and the county attorney in the presence of the deputy sheriff was not openly made but was in the nature of a confidential communication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jayne v. Bateman“‘‘The following persons shall be incompetent to testify: * * * Fourth. An attorney concerning any communication made to him by his client, in that relation, or his advice thereon, without the client’s consent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howsley v. Clark
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.