Reed v. Baxter’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.3d 351 · 1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State ex rel. Leslie v. Ohio Housing Finance Agency (2005), County of Erie v. H (2007)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 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 United States v. Nixon · Upjohn Company v. United States · Trammel v. United States · Fetner v. Haggerty · In re Grand Jury Subpoena Duces Tecum
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Where legal advice of any kind is sought (2) from a professional legal adviser in his capacity as such, (3) the communications relating to that purpose, (4) made in confidence (5) by the client, (6) are at his instance permanently protected (7) from disclosure by himself or by the legal adviser, (8) unless the protection is waived.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question of whether the attorney-client privilege applies is a mixed question of law and fact, subject to de novo review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“corporation, association, or other organization or entity,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.