Morfeld v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2007
7 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 The First National Bank of Cincinnati v. Sidney Pepper, Elsie W. Cox, Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Appellants, Modern Talking Picture Service, Inc. · Baskerville v. Baskerville · Matter of Krooks · State Ex Rel. Gary v. Fireman's Fund Indemnity Co. · Re Faling Estate
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) For professional services performed on behalf of a client, an attorney shall have a lien for compensation due him from the time of giving notice of the lien. The attorney’s lien attaches upon: (i) Any papers or money of his client which have come into his possession; (ii) Money due his client and in the possession of an adverse party. (b) Notice as required by subsection (a) of this section to be given to any person against whom the lien is asserted shall be given by certified mail, return receipt requested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Nlotwithstanding that Andrews could not claim under the contingent-fee contract be still has a right to recover upon quantum meruait.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horn v. Wooster““We do not know how there can be a breach of fiduciary duty in the assertion of a legal right.””
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.