Everett v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2018
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Hunt v. Blackburn · Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. O'Connor · Dewberry v. Bank of Standing Rock · Palverari v. Finta · Shepard v. Shepard
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law regards the neglect of an attorney as the client’s own neglect, and will give no relief from the consequences thereof. Were courts authorized to disturb judgments because of the neglect and unskillfulness of attorneys appearing in the cases, the character of these adjudications of the courts for stability would be wonderfully impaired. It would frequently occur that a judgment would not be regarded as settling the rights of the parties, until the court had, in a proceeding in this character, passed upon the skill and diligence of the counsel. This would not result so often from actual negligence or want of skill of attorneys, as from the disposition of litigants to avail themselves of every possible avenue of escape from the consequences of defeat. This rule is not intended for the protection of the legal profession, but is founded upon the ne cessity of regarding judgments as final between the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The object of the rule ceases and the attorney is no longer bound by his obligation of secrecy when his client or his representatives charge him, either directly or indirectly, with fraud or other improper or unprofessional conduct. Under such circumstances he may testify as to the facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Northup v. State““There is no privilege under Rule 210 as to any relevant communication between a lawyer and his client * * * (b) upon an issue of a breach of duty by the lawyer to his client.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Northup v. State
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.