State v. Doster’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019
3 federal appellate · 13 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 89 F. Supp. 357 - United States v. United Shoe MacHinery Corporation · Harrison v. State · Steiner v. United States · South Carolina State Highway Department v. Booker
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Where legal- advice of any kind is sought (2) from a-professional legal adviser in -his capacity as such, (3) the communications relating to that purpose (4) made in confidence (5) by the client, (6) are at his instance permanently protected (7) from disclosure by himself or by the legal adviser, (8) except the protection be waived.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that determines the best interest of society is served by”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The public policy protecting confidential communications must be balanced against the public interest in the proper administration of justice.”
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.