Phillips v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2022
4 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 81A
Relies on Galbreath v. Armstrong · Berrum v. Georgetta · Noftzger v. Moffett · Frauenfelder v. State Ex Rel. La Prade · Pearcy v. Columbia Growers & Packing Corp.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ajttorney lien statutes are to be regarded as remedial and should be liberally construed in aid of the object sought by the legislature, which is to furnish security to attorneys for their efforts by giving them a lien upon the subject of the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“this lien is subordinate to the rights existing between the parties to the action or proceeding,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Attorney's lien. (a) An attorney has a lien for his compensation, whether specially agreed upon or implied, as provided in this section (1) first, upon the papers of his client which have come into his possession in the course of his professional employment; (2) second, upon money in his hands belonging to his client; (3) third, upon money in the hands of the adverse party in an action or proceeding in which the attorney is employed from the giving of notice of the lien to that party; (4) fourth, upon a judgment to the extent of the costs included in the judgment or, if there is a special agreement, to the extent of the compensation specially agreed on, from the giving of notice of the lien to the party against whom the judgment is given and filing the original with the clerk where the judgment is entered and docketed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Paul
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.