Daniel Mones, PA v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably In Re Beverly Manufacturing Corp., Debtor. Robert Brake, Esq. v. Jeanette Tavormina, Trustee, in Re Beverly Manufacturing Corporation, Debtor. Robert Brake v. Jeanette E. Tavormina, as Trustee of Beverly Manufacturing Corporation (1988), Capuano v. United States (1992)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 399 So. 2d 1137 - Vey v. Bradford Union Guidance Clinic, Inc. · 428 So. 2d 1383 - Sinclair, Etc. & Zavertnik, PA v. Baucom · Scott v. Kirtley · In Re the Estate of Warner · 46 So. 2d 722 - Nichols v. Kroelinger
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an express or implied contract between attorney and client; (2) an express or implied understanding for payment of attorney's fees out of the recovery; (3) either an avoidance of payment or a dispute as to the amount of fees; and (4) timely notice.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to give timely notice of a charging lien an attorney should either file a notice of lien or otherwise pursue the lien in the original action.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“before the close of the original proceeding,”
3 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.