Estes v. Millea’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2022
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company · Johnson v. Consolidated Freightways, Inc. · Black Hills Jewelry Manufacturing Co. v. Felco Jewel Industries, Inc. · Staab v. Cameron · Gregory v. Solem
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party to an action may not make a voluntary decision concerning a trial tactic and then when they find themselves in an undesirable position as a result of that legal posture, attempt to proceed in a subsequent inconsistent manner. Judicial estoppel bars such gamesmanship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A violation of this prohibition can result in serious consequences for the attorney and his unfortunate client. It can result in the disqualification of the attorney from further participation in the case. In the alternative, the attorney's testimony is considered incompetent and is stricken from the record .... Further, the attorney may inadvertently attack his own client's credibility by testifying in a manner which conflicts with the client's testimony .... Thus, it becomes a matter of evidence and not simply a matter of ethics. As a violation of Rule 3.7 of the attorney's required professional conduct, ethics is also involved and a violation may result in an unwanted appearance before the grievance committee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Persons enter into land transactions for a multitude of reasons. A common inducement for such a course of action is the hope of financial gain ... [O]ften the hope for gain fades into the reality of an investment gone sour and a loss incurred. At such a point, it is not the function of the judiciary to require [another] party not responsible for the result, to rescue the disappointed investor from "what may in retrospect appear to have been a bad bargain."”
1 later decision 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.