Conley v. Graybeal’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2006
1 district · 5 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 Thomas Organ Co. v. Jadranska Slobodna Plovidba · Daniel J. McDougall Jr. v. Kenneth R. Dunn · Brandywine Shoppe, Inc. v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · Hopkins v. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. that any report or statement made by or to a party’s agent (other than to an attorney, acting in the role of counsellor), which has not been requested by nor prepared for an attorney nor which otherwise reflects the employment of an attorney’s legal expertise must be conclusively presumed to have been made in the ordinary course of business and thus not within the purview of the limited privilege of new Rule 26(b)(3) and (b)(4).”
2 later decisions 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.