Adams v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
165 F. 304 · 1908
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2004 · most notably United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1940), Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell (1926)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 In re Ayers · State of Louisiana Elliott v. Jumel · Hagood v. Southern · Hall v. Wisconsin · Thebo v. Choctaw Tribe of Indians
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relationship of attorney and client is such as to require perfect confidence between the parties, and, of course, could not be continued by a decree in equity against the will of either party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Udall v. Littell
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.