52 Ill. App. 3d 749 - King v. King’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rule has long been firmly established that an attorney cannot represent conflicting interests or undertake to discharge inconsistent duties. When he has once been retained and received the confidence of a client he cannot enter the service of those whose interests are adverse to that of his client or take employment in matters so closely related to those of his client or former client as in effect to be a part thereof. [Citations.] *** It is the glory of the legal profession that its fidelity to its clients can be depended upon; that a man may safely go to a lawyer and converse with him upon his rights in litigation with absolute assurance that that lawyer’s tongue is tied from ever discussing it.” People v. Gerold, 265 Ill. 448, 477-78 , 107 N.E. 165 (1914).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 307 Ill. App. 3d 1024 - Morris v. Margulis

2. ““ ‘At the inception of the contacts between the layman and the lawyer it is essential that the layman feel free of danger in stating the facts of the case to the lawyer whom he consults. Even though the lawyer rejects the case and the relation of attorney and client never arose, the usual duties as to privileged communications and conflicting interests should apply.’ ” (King, 52 Ill. App. 3d at 752 , quoting L. Patterson & E. Cheatham, The Profession of Law 246 (1971).)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 180 Ill. App. 3d 692 - Herbes v. Graham

3. ““An attorney cannot recover from the party that he has wronged for legal services where he has represented adverse, conflicting, and antagonistic interests in the same litigation. Strong v. International Building Loan & Invest. Union (1899), 183 Ill. 97 , 55 N.E. 675 ; Gary v. Beadles (1916), 202 Ill. App. 58 ; Beerly v. The Wm. Meyer Co. (1947), 332 Ill. App. 653 , 75 N.E.2d 783 (abstract).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 56 Ill. App. 3d 888 - Frederick v. Zeigler Coal Co.