Lessenberry v. Adkisson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2019
10 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 19 Ill. 2d 318 - The People v. Wolff · Singleton v. Foreman · 248 So. 2d 479 - Fisher v. State · Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance v. Radcliffe On Delaware, Inc. · Riley v. District Court in & for Second Judicial Dist.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A client, of course, who has contracted for the services of an attorney, may discharge his attorney with or without cause . . . and it goes without saying that an attorney has the right to withdraw from his contract with a client when he does so with the client’s consent and approval and when the rights of others, or the administration of justice, are not affected by such action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. Taylor
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.