Lyman v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 700 · 1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2018
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Trist v. Child · McGowan v. Parish · Calhoun v. Massie · Spofford v. Kirk · McPherson v.
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.
“where settlement has been effected through set-off, prior to the obtaining of a judgment or decree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The charging lien at common law was applicable to a judgment or decree obtained for a client by an attorney; it was not strictly a possessory lien, but was “merely a claim to the equitable interference by the court to have that judgment held as security for his debt [the attorney’s charges against the client].” This claim to “equitable interference by the court” did not arise until a judgment or decree had been obtained; prior to that time, the client could settle the case. In the present case, of course, no judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ever [came] into the court's possession over which it could conceivably exercise equitable control,”
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.