Gordon v. Mankoff’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2003
4 district · 3 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. . Van Wagenen · Matter of Levy
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unquestioned that a client has the right to terminate the relationship of attorney and client at any time, with or without cause. That right is afforded him by the law because of the peculiar nature and character of the relationship, which in its very essence is one of trust and confidence. It is a right for the benefit of the client, and is intended to save him from representation by an attorney whose services he no longer desires, an obviously sound and salutary doctrine. But, while that relationship continues, it is a contract which must be respected like any other contract, and, because the law gives the client the right to terminate the relationship at will, is no justification for maliciously inclined third persons to disrupt it while it exists.””
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.