Ferguson v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2002
2 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Michel v. McKenna · Harvey v. Harvey · Barreda Corp. v. Ballenger · Ramirez v. Vela
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine seems to be well settled that, ‘The objection that an attorney is disqualified by reason of his representing adverse interests, is available only to those as to whom the attorney in question sustains or has sustained the relation of attorney and client * * *.’ 7 C.J. Secundum, Attorney and Client, p. 826, § 47. To the same effect see: Harvey v. Harvey, 202 Wis. 553 , 231 N.W. 580, 583 ; Michel v. McKenna, 199 Wis. 608 , 277 N.W. 396 ; Van Veen v. Van Veen, 213 Iowa 323 , 236 N.W. 1, 8 , 238 N.W. 718 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The doctrine seems to be well settled that, “The objection that an attorney is disqualified by reason of his representing adverse interests, is available only to those as to whom the attorney in question sustains or has sustained the relation of attorney and client ...” (quoting Ferguson v. Alexander, 122 S.W.2d 1079, 1081 (Tex.Civ.App.—Dallas 1938, writ dism’d jdgm. cor.)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Callaway v. Barber
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.