Commonwealth v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Watson (1992), 29 Va. App. 673 - Anderson v. Anderson (1999)
8 federal appellate · 77 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · Matter of the Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for Harry a Groban and Nathan Groban · United States v. Kovel · United States v. Jones · V Hon Edward G Baker As Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[confidential communications between attorney and client made because of that relationship and concerning the subject matter of the attorney’s employment “are privileged from disclosure, even for the purpose of administering justice.” Grant v. Harris, 116 Va. 642, 648 , 82 S.E. 718, 719 (1914); accord Seventh District Committee v. Gunter, 212 Va. 278, 287 , 183 S.E.2d 713, 719 (1971).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The work product doctrine is closely related to the attorney-client privilege. Generally, material such as “interviews, statements, memoranda, correspondence, briefs, mental impressions, [and] personal beliefs,” which are “prepared by an adversaiy’s counsel with an eye toward litigation” may be free from discovery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he privilege attaches to communications of the client* made to the attorney’s agents, including accountants, when such agent's services are indispensable to the attorney's effective representation of the client.”
3 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.