Satterlee v. Bliss’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably City & County of San Francisco v. Superior Court (1951), Baird v. Koerner (1960)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Chirac · Davis v. Davis · Marshall v. Shafter · Kisling v. Shaw · Bonds v. Hickman
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Knowledge acquired during the time he is attorney is not privileged, unless it is acquired in the course and for the purposes of his employment.””
1 later decision 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.