Colstad v. Levine’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Niccum v. Hydra Tool Corp. (1989), Boulevard Plaza Corp. v. Campbell (1959)
31 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 Doyle v. Wohlrabe · Hansen v. St. Paul City Railway Co. · Anderson v. Connecticut Fire Insurance Co. · Petraborg v. Zontelli · Brannan v. Shertzer
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [I]t has been emphasized that the duty of fidelity and good faith imposed upon the attorney in dealing with his client is founded, not on the professional relation per se, but on the influence created by the relation, and that the duty does not always cease immediately on the termination of the relation but continues as long as the influence created by that relationship continues to exist.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the burden of proving that he has been absolutely frank and fair with his client and has taken no advantage of the [confidential relationship].”
2 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.