Garrett v. McRee’s Empirical Analysis
201 F.2d 250 · 1953
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Abel v. Tisdale (1980), Cappel v. Adams (1970)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · United States v. Equitable Trust Co. · United States v. Anglin & Stevenson · Hurley v. Hurley
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here an attorney recovers a fund in a suit under a contract with a client provid ing that he shall be compensated only out of the fund he creates, the court having jurisdiction of the subject matter of the suit has power to fix the attorney’s compensation and direct its payment out of the fund.”
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.