Wehringer's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably Flint's Case (1990), In re Brooks (1996)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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 Randall v. Brigham · In Re Hinds · Murphy v. Financial Development Corp. · Crowley v. Global Realty, Inc. · Lash v. Cheshire County Savings Bank, Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, whether the record supports the findings and rulings of the referee, and second, the appropriate sanction to impose against the respondent. In reviewing the referee’s findings, we determine whether a reasonable person could have reached the same decision as the referee on the basis pf the evidence before him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Feld's Case“[T]he relationship of the lawyer to the client and the court is one of fiduciary underpinnings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.