Palmer v. Breyfogle’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 93 Ill. App. 3d 517 - Corti v. Fleisher (1981), 246 Ill. App. 3d 719 - Holstein v. Grossman (1993)
4 district · 22 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 Weil v. Neary · McFarland v. George
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A lawyer shall not divide a fee for legal services with another lawyer who is not a partner in or associate of his law firm or law office, unless: “(1) The client consents to employment of the other lawyer after a full disclosure that a division of fees will be made. “(2) The division is made in proportion to the services performed and responsibility assumed by each. “(3) The total fee of the lawyers does not clearly exceed reasonable compensation for all legal services they rendered the client.” (1990 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 177-78).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Members of the public who seek the services of an attorney cannot be treated by him as mere merchandise or articles of trade in the market place. A client is not an article of property in which a lawyer can claim a proprietary interest, which he can sell to other lawyers expecting to be compensated for the loss of a property right.” (Palmer v. Breyfogle (1975), 217 Kan. 128, 142 , 535 P.2d 955, 965-66 .)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"... It seems to us that where a lawyer sues his client or anyone else for services rendered, he should have some reasonable idea and be able to state the nature of the services which he performed and the professional time and effort he expended in rendering such services. We would require no less of an artisan or a laboring man who is seeking compensation on the basis of quantum meruit." (p. 147.)”
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.