Craft v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Peterson v. Hopson · Answer of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Matter of Heinsheimer · Boswell v. Zephyr Lines, Inc. · Mulhern v. Roach
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From the authorized commencement of an action, counterclaim or other proceeding in any court, ... the attorney who appears for a cli ent. . . shall have a lien for his reasonable fees and expenses upon his client’s cause of action, counterclaim or claim, upon the judgment, decree or other order in his client’s favor entered or made in such proceeding, and upon the proceeds derived therefrom.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Craft v. Kane
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.