Blake v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1. The attorney must preserve or protect a common fund; 2. The attorney’s services must have aided in creating, preserving or protecting the fund, and the services must prove fruitful to the general class; and 3. There must be a principle of representation or agency as in a class suit, that is, before one may be allowed compensation out of a common fund belonging to others for services rendered on behalf of the common interest there must be a contract of employment, either expressly made or superinduced by the law upon the facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. First Union Nat. Bank of SC v. Soden