Bryant v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The requirement that an attorney shall not represent conflicting interests, at least without full disclosure to the client both of the facts and their significance, is designed ‘to preclude the honest practitioner from putting himself in a position where he may be required to choose between conflicting duties, or be led to an attempt to reconcile conflicting interests rather than to enforce to their full extent the rights of the interest which he should alone represent.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Estate of McCool

2. ““From the foregoing we think it clear that, even if the employment were such that Lewis could represent both parties by agreement, there was lacking that full explanation to her of the full nature and extent of the conflict of their interests, as would qualify him to act for both.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cheatham v. Franke