French v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent (1972), Martin v. . Camp (1916)
1 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Elmore v. Johnson · Kersey v. Garton · Campbell v. State · Judah v. Trustees of Vincennes University · M'Cormick v. Malin
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the compensation agreed upon is contingent on the successful result of the suit, the measure of damages is not the contingent fee but the reasonable value of the services rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramey v. Graves
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.