Slayton v. Russ’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Henry, Walden & Davis v. Goodman (1987), Brown v. Central Arkansas Production Credit Ass'n (1974)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Hays & Ward · St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Hurst · Crump v. Guyer · McNeill v. Percy · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company v. Poe
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar we are concerned with the second of these situations ; and we hold that the proof of a compromise or settlement after suit is filed and without the attorney’s consent constitutes, under the statute, the only prerequisite to the proper filing by the attorney of a motion to have his fee fixed. Defendant, by compromising and settling, has recognized the attorneys’ absolute right to recover a fee of some amount; and the demerits of the plaintiffs’ original canse of action are no defense to the motion to fix the attorneys’ fee under the statute here involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * The services of an attorney, when rendered in litigation before the same court which is passing upon the value of such services, may, of themselves, constitute evidence from which the court alone, unaided by opinion of others as to value, or even in defiance of opinion evidence, may reach a conclusion.””
1 later decision 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.