Goodkind v. Wolkowsky’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably 409 So. 2d 1016 - Rosenberg v. Levin (1982), Perez v. State (1993)
8 federal appellate · 43 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 Martin v. . Camp · Hazen v. Cobb-Vaughan Motor Co. · Louque v. Dejan · United States Savings Bank v. Pittman · French v. Cunningham
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are inclined to follow the majority of the courts in holding that the discharge of an attorney, without cause, employed for a specified purpose and for a definite fee, after there has been substantial performance on the part of the attorney, is a breach of the contract for which an action for damages will lie against the client for the fee agreed upon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“49 It is undisputed, then, that the client may discharge the attorney at any time. But the next step, that since the client may freely terminate, the contract is fair game also for a third party, we cannot take, and this is where the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on the ground that plaintiff's right to recover must be restricted to a reasonable compensation for the value of the services performed prior to the discharge.”
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.