Robertson v. Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 27 district · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Riley v. Presnell (1991), Carroll v. Xerox Corp. (2002)
26 federal appellate · 27 district · 134 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 Dixson v. United States · Barrett Associates, Inc. v. Aronson · Evans v. Artek System Corp. · Hartmann v. Boston Herald-Traveler Corp. · DeVaux v. American Home Assurance Co.
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 205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a person seeks advice or assistance from an attorney, (2) the advice or assistance sought pertains to matters within the attorney's professional competence, and (3) the attorney expressly or impliedly agrees to give or actually gives the desired advice or assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An attorney for a corporation does not simply by virtue of that capacity become the attorney for ... its officers, directors or shareholders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the attorney knows [the nonclient] will rely on the services rendered.”
2 later decisions 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.