379 Pa. Super. 331 - Commonwealth v. Roman’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2017
2 district · 9 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 361 Pa. Super. 566 - Commonwealth v. Scheps · 368 Pa. Super. 33 - Commonwealth v. Sweeney
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a client “deliberately disregards an agreement or obligation” to pay legal fees whenever the failure is conscious rather than inadvertent, and is not de minimus in either amount or duration. A client’s knowing and substantial failure to satisfy his or her financial obligations to a lawyer would justify the lawyer’s withdrawal.... This would be so even where the failure results from inability to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There are no prophylactic rules which exist when determining whether a denial of withdrawal amounts to an abuse of discretion. Each case must be decided by balancing the competing interests giving due regard to the facts presented.”
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.