Sargent v. . McLeod’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably In Re the Estate of Montgomery (1936), Roe v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1943)
8 federal appellate · 34 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSargent v. McLeod
Relationships
Relies on Fischer-Hansen v. . Bklyn. Heights R.R. Co. · Dunn v. Hudson River Electric Co. · 6 E.H. Smith 521 - Peri v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad · Wolfe v. . Howes · Spalding v. . Rosa
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The lien did not spring from the contract, but from the statute, and it secured the compensation of the intestate [the attorney having died] as payable under correct legal rules. When the settlement was arranged, the stipulated fund which by payment to McLeod [the client] was to carry it out and into which the cause of action was transformed was charged with the lien. The defendant having knowledge of the lien may not say that it disregarded it and parted with the entire fund. It was bound to retain, and the law conclusively assumes it has retained, sufficient to pay the sum which the plaintiff was entitled to receive.” (Italics supplied).”
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.