Cannon v. US Acoustics Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Freeman v. Chicago Musical Instrument Co. (1982), Evans v. Artek System Corp. (1983)
22 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Ross v. Bernhard · Smith v. Sperling
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether it could reasonably be said that during the former representation the attorney might have acquired information related to the subject matter of the subsequent representation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Canon 4: A lawyer should preserve the confidences and secrets of a client. Canon 5: A lawyer should exercise independent professional judgment on behalf of a client. Canon 9: A lawyer should avoid even the appearance of professional impropriety.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)f so, then the relationship between the two matters is sufficiently close to bring the later representation within the prohibition of . . . (the canons)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.