In Re Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009 · most notably Wood v. Georgia (1981), United States v. Dolan (1978)
11 federal appellate · 15 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 In re Whittington · State v. De Stasio · In Re Kamp · In Re Disbarment Proceedings · Herbert W. Salus's Case
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conflict of interest inheres in every such situation____ It is inherently wrong to represent both the employer and the employee if the employee’s interest may, and the public interest will, be advanced by the employee’s disclosure of his employer’s criminal conduct. For the same reasons, it is also inherently wrong for an attorney who represents only the employee to accept a promise to pay from one whose criminal liability may turn on the employee’s testimony.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"We . . . think it was improper for respondent to have accepted the organization's promise to pay his bill, for such an arrangement has the inherent risk of dividing an attorney's loyalty between the defendant and the gambler-employer who will pay for the services. Obviously, it is in the interest of the defendant's employer that the defendant shall not turn him in. That is why the employer is willing to pay.. . . It is of course to the advantage of the convicted defendant to seek leniency by aiding the state. . . . It is the duty of the defendant's attorney to advise him of that opportunity. An attorney is hardly well situated to discharge that duty when he has agreed to look to the syndicate for the payment of his fee." 56 N.J. at 275-276 , 266 A.2d at 278 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such conduct not only obstructs justice, but prevents the due administration of law____ An attorney may defend persons accused of participating in the numbers racket as writers, pickup men, or bankers, and their clients need not be limited. It is not the number of persons defended that counts, but is the regularity, character, and purpose of employment. When the purpose is to guide and aid a combination of persons engaged in crime, an attorney becomes part of the criminal system. Where a large number of cases of the same kind of crime are regularly defended by the same lawyer, where the defendants do not know and never have seen the lawyer prior to the moment of representation, and where the attorney’s fees are paid by men known to be the leaders of a criminal system, a court may not only infer knowledge on his part of the criminal combination, but, from the frequency of his performance and knowledge, conclude that he becomes an actual participant therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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