Torphy v. Reder’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Boswell v. Zephyr Lines, Inc. (1993), Ropes & Gray LLP v. Jalbert (2008)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Matter of Heinsheimer · Stockbridge v. Mixer · Brauer v. Hotel Associates, Inc. · 252 Cal. App. 2d 683 - Spencer v. Spencer · Elbaum v. Sullivan
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From the authorized commencement of an action, counterclaim or other proceed ing in any court, or appearance in any proceeding before any state or federal department, board or commission, the attorney who appears for a client in such proceeding shall have a lien for his reasonable fees and expenses upon his client’s cause of action, counterclaim or claim, upon the judgment, decree or other order in his client’s favor entered or made in such proceeding, and upon the proceeds derived therefrom.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Reder [the defendant] argues, and we think rightly, that since there was no decree in his favor there was nothing to which the statutory lien could attach. As noted in Elbaum v. Sullivan, 344 Mass. 662, 663-664 [ 183 N.E.2d 712 (1962) ], the type of lien created by G.L. c. 221, § 50, is a charging lien which binds the judgment or money decree for payment of expenses incurred and for services rendered by an attorney with respect to the particular action or suit. No judgment or decree exists in Reder’s favor in the current litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The facts of the case before us do not require that we make a broad determination that an attorney may claim a possessory lien in this Commonwealth. We are convinced on the facts of the case no possessory lien would be claimed by the petitioner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Venincasa
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.