39 Cal. 2d 75 - Solon v. Lichtenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 30 Cal. 4th 43 - People v. Snow (2003), 9 Cal. 4th 1196 - People v. Gionis (1995)
3 federal appellate · 45 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 24 Cal. 2d 81 - Lawless v. Calaway · Andrews v. California Trust Co. · Estate of Perkins · Sharon v. Sharon, 11991 (Cal. 7-17-1889) · Kirk v. Los Angeles Railway 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A communication to be privileged must have been made to an attorney acting in his professional capacity toward his client.”
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.