Anderson v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 18 Cal. 3d 335 - Goodman v. Kennedy (1976), 20 Cal. 4th 1135 - People Ex Rel. Deparment of Corporations. v. Speedee Oil Change Systems, Inc. (1999)
2 district · 98 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 Strong v. International Building Loan & Invest. Union · In re Cowdery
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n attorney is precluded from assuming any relation which would prevent him from devoting his entire energies to his clients' interests.... The rule is designed not alone to prevent the dishonest practitioner from fraudulent conduct, but as well to preclude the honest practitioner from putting himself in a position where he may be required to choose between conflicting duties, or be led to an attempt to reconcile conflicting interests, rather than to enforce to their full extent the rights of the interest which he should alone represent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is... an attorney's duty to protect his client in every possible way, and it is a violation of that duty for him to assume a position adverse or antagonistic to his client without the latter's free and intelligent consent.... By virtue of this rule an attorney is precluded from assuming any relation which would prevent him from devoting his entire energies to his client's interests.”
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.