Chavis v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2003
6 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 Baker v. Humphrey · Robinson v. Indiana & Arkansas Lumber & Manufacturing Co. · Thweatt v. Freeman · Norfleet v. Stewart · Maloney v. Terry
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fiduciary relation exists between attorney and client, and the confidence which the relationship begets between the parties makes it necessary for the attorney to act in the utmost good faith. He must not only not misrepresent any fact to his client, but there must be an entire absence of concealment or suppression of any facts within his knowledge which might influence the client, and the burden of establishing the fairness of the transaction is upon the attorney. This rule is of universal application, and is recognized by all of the text-writers on the subject. * * * Equity regards the relation of attorney and client much in the same fight as that of guardian and ward, and will relieve a client from hard bargains, or from an undue advantage secured over him by his attorney. And the client, in order to secure such relief, is not bound to show that there has been any imposition or fraud, nor is the transaction necessarily void; but if it is a transaction in which the relation between the parties exerted, or might reasonably exerted, any influence in the attorney’s favor, then the burden of establishing its perfect fairness is thrown upon the attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanford v. Sanford
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.