Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 78 Ill. 2d 217 - Rhoades v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. (1979), 198 Ill. 2d 87 - People v. Philip Morris, Inc. (2001)
13 federal appellate · 30 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In other words, it is a lien upon the proceeds only of the litigation or settlement of the claim. Should the defendant or- debtor ignore the notice claiming a lien, and settle in full directly with his adversary, there is no specific property left $)in his hands which could be applied to the payment of the attorney’s fees upon foreclosure or other proceedings to enforce the lien.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That attorneys at law shall have a lien upon all claims, demands and causes of action, including all claims for unliquidated damages, which may be placed in their hands by their clients for suit or collection, or upon which suit or action has been instituted, for the amount of ,any fee which may have been agreed upon by and between such attorneys and their clients . . . . Provided, however, such attorneys shall serve notice in writing, which service may be made by registered mail, upon the party against whom their clients may have such suits, claims or causes of action, claiming such lien and stating therein the interest they have in such suits, claims, demands or causes of action, and such lien shall attach to any verdict, judgment or decree entered and to any money or property which may be recovered, on account of such suits, claims, demands or causes of action, from and after the time of service of the aforesaid notice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“By serving the notice claiming a lien the attorney in effect becomes a joint claimant with his client in any judgment or decree that may be rendered, or in the proceeds of any settlement that may be made by the client, and to the extent of the amount of his fee has the same interest in such proceeds, judgment, or decree as his client, and is entitled to his pro rata share thereof. In short, when the notice claiming a lien is served on the defendant or debtor under this statute, it has the effect of an assignment of an interest in any judgment or decree that may be rendered, or in the proceeds of any settlement that may be made by the client, and is such an assignment that the defendant or debtor is bound to respect. This creates a new and a substantial right in favor of the attorney, and divests the client of substantial rights that he theretofore possessed. [Italics supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.