Matza v. Matza’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Beverly Hills Concepts, Inc. v. Schatz & Schatz, Ribicoff & Kotkin (1998), West Hartford Interfaith Coalition, Inc. v. Town Council (1994)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 91 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co. · State v. Glover · Scinto v. Stamm · Lauer v. Zoning Commission
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he relationship between an attorney and client must involve personal integrity and responsibility on the part of the lawyer and an equal confidence and trust on the part of the client. . . . The relationship between an attorney and his client is highly fiduciary in its nature and of a very delicate, exacting, and confidential character, requiring a high degree of fidelity and good faith.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] strained and coerced relationship is inconsistent with the notion of the attorney-client relationship. The court should not perform such a shotgun wedding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The judicial system has a significant interest in regulating attorneys and the attorney-client relationship. . . .In so doing, courts have been mindful that the relationship between an attorney and client must involve personal integrity and responsibility on the part of the lawyer and an equal confidence and trust on the part of the client. . . . The relationship between an attorney and his client is highly fiduciary in its nature and of a very delicate, exacting, and confidential character, requiring a high degree of fidelity and good faith." (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Matza v. Matza, 226 Conn. 166 , 183-84 , 627 A.2d 414 (1993).”
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.