Lieberman v. Polytop Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Andrews v. Bechtel Power Corp. · Whiting v. Lacara · Washington v. Sherwin Real Estate, Inc. · United States v. Luis Raul Quintana-Aguayo
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It simply expects too much of counsel to expend the additional energy necessary to go to trial, and to front the necessary expenses, without any real assurance that he will be paid for any of it, especially where he already is owed a substantial sum and the client has violated the written fee agreement. Further, if counsel does not expend the necessary effort and does not front the trial expenses, he very well could expose himself to civil liability to his client. We refuse to place counsel in such a position.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(5) the client fails substantially to fulfill an obligation to the lawyer regarding the lawyer’s services and has been given reasonable warning that the lawyer will withdraw unless the obligation is fulfilled; . (6) the representation will result in an unreasonable financial burden .on the lawyer or has been rendered unreasonably difficult by the client; or . (7) other good cause for withdrawal exists.”
2 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.