Prichard v. Fulmer’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Northern Pueblos Enterprises. v. Montgomery (1982), Sowder v. Sowder (1999)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 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 Goodrich v. . McDonald · President of the Michigan State Bank v. Hastings · Weed Sewing Machine Co. v. Boutelle · Porter, Taylor & Co. v. Hanson · Wright v. Cobleigh
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he lien originated in the desire on the part of the courts to protect attorneys against dishonest clients, who, utilizing the services of the attorney to establish and enable them to enforce their claims against their debtors, sought to evade payment for the services which enabled them to recover their demand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One who has been dilatory, and has permitted the client to collect the judgment, without objection or protest, or seeking aid from the court, cannot invoke the aid of a court of equity; nor can he ask the court, after he has permitted it [to dispose of the property], to set aside its acts in the premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The courts only give him a lien upon the judgment, or, perhaps more properly speaking, give him the right to invoke the aid of the court, by the control which it exercises over its process and officers in the cause in which the judgment was rendered, in securing for him his just compensation.”
1 later decision 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.