Allen v. Humphreys’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Canadian Helicopters Ltd. v. Wittig (1994), In Re McAllen Medical Center, Inc. (2008)
70 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 Crane v. Tunks · Maresca v. Marks · Barker v. Dunham · Houdaille Industries, Inc. v. Cunningham · Ex Parte Shepperd
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) with the exception of discoverable communications prepared by or for experts, any communication passing between agents or representatives or the employees of any party to the action or communications between any party and his agents, representatives or their employees, where made subsequent to the occurrence or transaction upon which the suit is based, and made in connection with the prosecution, investigation or defense of the claim or the investigation of the occurrence or transaction out of which the claim has arisen.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the material sought to be discovered is ... a written communication between agents, representatives, or employees of either party to the suit, or ... written communications between any party and his agents, representatives, or their employees; (2) the statement or communication is made subsequent to the occurrence or transaction upon which the suit is based; and (3) the statement or communication is made in connection with the prosecution, investigation, or defense of the particular suit or in connection with the investigation of the particular circumstances out of which it arose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he results of a test or survey done after the institution of Mrs. Allen’s suit or after Safeway or Charter Oak had good cause to believe such a suit would be filed would be privileged if the defendant could show the survey or test was made “in connection with the prosecution, investigation or defense of such claim or the circumstances out of which same has arisen.””
1 later decision 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.