Forrest v. Baeza’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 86 Cal. App. 4th 1324 - Adams v. Aerojet-General Corp. (2001), 71 Cal. App. 4th 1240 - Gilbert v. National Corp. for Housing Partnerships (1999)
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 9 Cal. 4th 275 - Flatt v. Superior Court · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Bolger · Trust Corporation Of Montana v. Piper Aircraft Corporation · Global Van Lines, Inc. v. Superior Court · 188 Cal. App. 3d 1297 - River West, Inc. v. Nickel
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“protect[ ] the integrity of the attorney-client relationship,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n the factual circumstances of this case, where [the attorney] has been representing a corporation comprised of three shareholders solely by virtue of his relationship with ... the majority directors/shareholders, it is impossible to conceive of confidential information [the attorney] could have received from the 'corporation' that is different from information he received from the [majority shareholders].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'Current case law clearly forbids dual representation of a corporation and directors in a shareholder derivative suit, at least where, as here, the directors are alleged to have committed fraud'”
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.