Covert v. Randles’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2009
16 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 Walker v. Wright
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[to collect; to come into possession of; to get, obtain, procure, receive, and the like.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[V Jariously defined as to be successful in a suit; to collect or obtain the amount, possibly by a suit at law; to have judgment; to obtain a favorable or final judgment; to obtain by course of law; to obtain by judicial action or proceeding, or in any legal manner; to obtain by means of an action, in contrast to voluntary payment; to obtain title to by final decree or judgment in a court of law; to succeed in an action, or in a law suit; and in this legal sense, it has been held not to include necessarily, or even ordinarily, the actual payment of the money sued for.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hickman v. Hickman“Under a contract for a contingent fee, the percentage to which the attorney is entitled and the amount or property on which it is to be based depend on a fair and reasonable construction of the terms of the agreement.... The percentage coming to the attorney is usually reckoned on the amount actually recovered by the client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hickman v. Hickman
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.