Lane v. SHARP PACKAGING SYSTEMS, INC.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Johnson v. Rogers Memorial Hospital, Inc. (2005), Sands v. Whitnall School District (2008)
2 district · 57 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 Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Nobles · Clark v. United States · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · United States v. Zolin
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“examined the relevant facts, applied a proper standard of law, and using a demonstrative rational process, reached a conclusion that a reasonable judge could reach.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“not intended to be disclosed to 3rd persons other than those to whom disclosure is in furtherance of the rendition of professional legal services to the client or those reasonably necessary for the transmission of the communication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'would directly or indirectly reveal the substance of the client's confidential communications to the lawyer,'”
2 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.