Wesp v. Everson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably In Re the Investigation of the Death of Miller (2003), Stamp v. Vail Corp. (2007)
2 district · 47 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 Upjohn Company v. United States · Swidler & Berlin v. United States · United States v. Standard Oil Company · Glover v. Patten · A,B,C,D,E,F,G, & H v. District Court of the Second Judicial District
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issues of significant public importance that we have not yet considered.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An attorney shall not be examined without the consent of his client as to any communication made by 'the client to him or his advice given thereon in the course of professional employment;....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'statements made in circumstances giving rise to a reasonable expectation that the statements will be treated as confidential'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Kailey · Oldham v. Pedrie
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.