Doe v. Maret’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2023
1 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 Upjohn Company v. United States · Fisher v. United States · Higgins v. Salt Lake County · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,004, 36 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 761 Chevron Corporation v. Pennzoil Company · United States v. Ryans
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] client has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and to prevent any other person from disclosing, confidential communications ... made for the purpose of facilitating the rendition of professional legal services to the client.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person upon whom these rules confer a privilege against disclosure of the confidential matter or communication waives the privilege if the person or a predecessor while holder of the privilege voluntarily discloses or consents to the disclosure of any significant part of the matter or communication, or fails to take reasonable precautions against inadvertent disclosure.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is intended to encourage candor between attorney and client and promote the best possible representation of the client.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.