254 Pa. Super. 41 - Johnson v. Stein’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 422 Pa. Super. 262 - Styer v. Hugo (1993), 443 Pa. Super. 343 - Fowkes v. Shoemaker (1995)
25 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Schott v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · Recht v. Clairton Urban Redevelopment Authority · Harris's Appeal · 140 Pa. Super. 529 - Sundheim v. Beaver County Building & Loan Ass'n
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... before a charging lien will be recognized and applied, it must appear (1) that there is a fund in court or otherwise applicable for distribution on equitable principles, (2) that the services of the attorney operated substantially or primarily to secure the fund out of which he seeks to be paid, (3) that it was agreed that counsel look to the fund rather than the client for his compensation, (4) that the lien claimed is limited to costs, fees or other disbursements incurred in the litigation by which the fund was raised and (5) that there are equitable considerations which necessitate the recognition and application of the charging lien.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Implicit in what has just been said is the conclusion that there is an appropriate action by which appellant may have his claim against appellee adjudicated. In this regard, we note that the apparent absence of an agreement between the parties does not preclude an action by appellant, for recovery may be sought on a theory of quasi-contract, or contract implied-in-law. . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not depend upon possession, but upon the favor of the court in protecting attorneys, as its own officers, by taking care ... that a party should not run away with the fruits of the cause without satisfying the legal demands of the attorney by whose industry those fruits were obtained.”
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.