Rock v. Ballou’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably Williams v. Williams (1980), Beall v. Beall (1976)
24 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 City of Goldsboro v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. · Casket Co. v. . Wheeler · Randolph v. Schuyler · Jamison v. City of Charlotte · Stern v. Hyman Bros.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A contract made between an attorney and his client, during the existence of the relationship, concerning the fee to be charged for the attorney’s services, will be upheld if, but only if, it is shown to be reasonable and to have been fairly and freely made, with full knowledge by the client of its effect and of all the material circumstances relating to the reasonableness of the fee. The burden of proof is upon the attorney to show the reasonableness and the fairness of the contract, not upon the client to show the contrary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A contract for a contingent fee must be made in good faith, without suppression or reserve of fact or of apprehended difficulties; and without undue influence of any sort or degree; and the compensation bargained for must be absolutely just and fair, so that the transaction may be characterized throughout by all good faith to the client.””
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.