Hopper v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
16 F.3d 92 · 1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Little v. Liquid Air Corp. (1994), Ingalls Shipbuilding v. Federal Insurance Co, et a (2005)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Kashif v. United States · Lavespere v. Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Inc.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a person manifests to a lawyer the person's intent that the lawyer provide legal services for the person; and either (a) the lawyer manifests to the person consent to do so; or (b) the lawyer fails to manifest lack of consent to do so, and the lawyer knows or reasonably should know that the person reasonably relies on the lawyer to provide the services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no logical reason to distinguish partnerships from corporations or other legal entities in determining the client a lawyer represents”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not reflect an explicit and clear assertion — much less 'evidentiary documents ... setjting] out specific facts’”
1 later decision 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.