Poole v. . Belcha’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 1945 · most notably 6 E.H. Smith 521 - Peri v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (1897), Denson v. Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. (1916)
4 federal appellate · 32 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 Lee v. Vacuum Oil Co. · Wehle v. . Conner
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of the opinion that the existence of such a lien in favor of the attorneys does not confer a right on them to stand in the way of a settlement of the action which is desired by the parties, and which does not prejudice any right of the attorneys.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Baxter & Co.
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.