Fleischer v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

66 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions

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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “seriously disrupts the progress of litigation and decisively sullies the reputation of the affected attorney,”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eckles v. Furth · Cullen v. New York State Civil Service Commission

2. “The real and only bite to each motion is the attempt to secure the exclusion of the lawyers from the case; and once disqualification is obtained, all else is superfluous. Hence the prayers for injunctive relief add nothing to the orders denying the motions and render neither of them automatically appealable under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (a) (1).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · United States v. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Tri-Continental Financial Corporation, A. C. Allyn and Company, Incorporated, American Transportation Enterprises, Inc., Equitable Securities Corporation, Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., the Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc., and John W. Clarke & Co., Helene Glenmore v. John I. Ahern

3. “that small class which finally determine claims of right separable from, and collateral to, rights asserted in the action, too important to be denied review and too independent of the cause itself to require that appellate consideration be deferred until the whole case is adjudicated,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Hankish