State v. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 98 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Bonds (1982), 93 Md. App. 168 - Fraidin v. Weitzman (1992)
3 federal appellate · 94 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Malloy v. Hogan · United States v. Nobles · Williams v. Florida · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this State the attorney-client privilege, deeply rooted in common law and now memorialized in section 9-108 of the Maryland Code’s (1974) Courts Article, is a rule of evidence that forever bars disclosure, without the consent of the client, of all communications that pass in confidence between the client and his attorney during the course of professional employment or as an incident of professional intercourse between them. [Citations omitted]. [Footnote omitted]. The privilege is based upon the public policy that “an individual in a free society should be encouraged to consult with his attorney whose function is to counsel and advise him and he should be free from apprehension of compelled disclosures by his legal advis- or.” [Citations omitted]. While never given an explicit constitutional underpinning, the privilege is, nevertheless, closely tied to the federal, as well as this State’s, constitutional guarantees of effective assistance of counsel and could, if limited too severely, make these basic guarantees virtually meaningless. [Citations omitted].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““given the complexities of modern existence, few if any lawyers could, as a practical matter, represent the interest of their clients without a variety of nonlegal assistance. Recognizing this limitation, it is now almost universally accepted in this country that the scope of the attorney-client privilege, at least in criminal causes, embraces those agents whose services are required by the attorney in order that he may properly prepare his client’s case.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A person may not be compelled to testify in violation of the attorney-client privilege.””
2 later decisions 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.