57 Cal. 2d 213 - Setzer v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Sonic-Calabasas A, Inc. v. Moreno (2013), 61 Cal. 4th 899 - Sanchez v. Valencia Holding Co. (2015)
26 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 Cooley v. Miller & Lux · 64 Cal. App. 2d 681 - Swanson v. Hempstead · Estate of Raphael · Cooley v. Miller & Lux, Inc. · 146 Cal. App. 2d 350 - Youngblood v. Higgins
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. No attorney could safely or reasonably negotiate any fee agreement with "a prospective client without some preliminary investigation of the facts of the case and a disclosure to the prospective client of the legal steps which in his judgment must be taken. If by the very fact of such investigation and disclosure the relationship of attorney and client would thereby be created, the attorney would be placed in the impossible position of becoming the prospective client’s attorney while he was attempting to reach an agreement with him as to whether he should become his attorney or not. [Emphasis added.] [ 18 Cal.Rptr. at 526 , 368 P.2d at 126 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. George v. Caton
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.