Pearce v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Clark v. United States · 24 Cal. 3d 773 - Wyatt v. Union Mortgage Co. · Tovrea Land and Cattle Company v. Linsenmeyer · Chicago Title Insurance v. Great Western Financial Corp. · Wisener v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a privilege protecting communications between attorney and client. The privilege takes flight if the relation is abused. A client who consults an attorney for advice that will serve him in the commission of a fraud will have no help from the law. He must let the truth be told____ To drive the privilege away, there must be ‘something to give colour to the charge’; there must be ‘prima facie evidence that it has some foundation in fact.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kline v. Kline
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.