Bergeron v. Mackler’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
8 district · 196 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Simms v. Warden (1994), State v. Salmon (1999)
8 district · 196 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 State v. Curcio · Board of Education v. Nyquist · Union Texas Petroleum v. Corporation Commission of Oklahoma · Government of India v. Cook Industries, Inc. · Silver Chrysler Plymouth, Inc. v. Chrysler Motors Corp.
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`enforce the lawyer's duty of absolute fidelity and to guard against the danger of inadvertent use of confidential information.'”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“A lawyer who has formerly represented a client in a matter shall not thereafter: (a) represent another person in the same or a substantially related matter in which that person's interests are materially adverse to the interests of the former client unless the former client consents after consultation; or (b) use information relating to the representation to the disadvantage of the former client except as Rule 1.6 would permit with respect to a client or when the information has become generally known.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court has the authority to regulate the conduct of attorneys and has a duty to enforce the standards of conduct regarding attorneys.”
17 later decisions 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.