Saul v. Blumenfeld’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stephen Pete on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated, Louis Belton, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellees v. United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund of 1950, Slimp Kiser, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Harry Huge, and United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirementfund of 1950, Slimp Kiser, on Behalf of Himself and All Other Persons Who Have Been Deniedpension Payments From the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirementfund v. W. A. Boyle · Spilker v. Hankin · Pete v. United Mine Workers of America Welfare & Retirement Fund of 1950 · Kiser v. Miller
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enforced upon the same basis as ordinary commercial contracts,” “[e]specially ... where ... a contract beneficial to the attorney is executed long after the attorney-client relationship has commenced, when the position of trust is well established, and the litigation involved is reaching its culmination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haynes v. Kuder
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.