57 Ill. 2d 63 - In Re Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1996
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 People v. Gerold · In Re Michal
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.
““Clearly, an attorney violates Canon 6 when he uses confidential information against a former client. However, the proscription of Canon 6 does not extend only to that type of manifest disloyalty. The scope of an attorney’s duty of loyalty to his clients was described in People v. Gerold [(1914)], 265 Ill. 448, 477 , where the court stated: ‘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.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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