Gee v. Crabtree’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Skelton v. Spencer (1981), In Re the Marriage of Berkland (1988)
35 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 Collins v. Thuringer · Fillmore v. Wells · Donaldson, Hoffman & Goldstein v. Gaudio · 33 Colo. App. 180 - Seitz v. Seitz · Dankwardt v. Kermode
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To restrict the means of enforcement of an attorney's lien solely to independent civil actions would be a waste of judicial time, as well as contrary to the legislative intent reflected by the statutory language. The trial judge who heard the proceedings which gave rise to the lien is in a position to determine whether the amount asserted as a lien is proper and can determine the means for the enforcement of the lien... . In our view, the attorney's charging lien may not only be asserted, but may be enforced, in the civil action which gave rise to the lien claim, or, in the alternative, in an independent action." 560 P.2d at 836 . (Emphasis in original)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[sluch lien may be enforced by the proper civil action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All attorneys- and counselors-at-law shall have a lien on any money, property, choses in action, or claims and demands in their hands, on any judgment they may have obtained or assisted in obtaining, in whole or in part, and on any and all claims and demands in suit for any fees or balance of fees due or to become due from any client.”
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.