Ashman v. Schecter’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Attorney Grievance Commission v. Kerpelman (1980), St. Joseph Hospital v. Quinn (1966)
6 district · 30 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 Robinson v. . Rogers · Matter of Heinsheimer · Coughlin v. . N.Y.C. and H.R.R.R. Co. · Scott v. Kirtley · Fillmore v. Wells
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.
“[A]ll papers, securities and money belonging to his client which comes into his possession in the course of his professional employment. This is a general lien which gives him the right to retain such things until all his charges against his client are paid. As the name implies, it is dependent upon possession. It is generally speaking a passive lien and cannot be actively enforced either at law or equity.”
7 later decisions 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.