6 Ill. App. 2d 304 - Ross v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2002
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 Warner v. Flack · Jennings v. McConnel · Robinson v. Sharp · Goranson v. Solomonson · Hamilton v. Grady
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is logic in the rule that a lawyer should be protected in his retaining lien until he is paid, and should not be compelled to produce and surrender the records and papers upon which he has such lien in any proceeding other than a suit by the attorney to recover his fees. We think there is a clear distinction when he sues for his fees.” Ross, 6 Ill. App. 2d at 308 , 127 N.E.2d at 520-21 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is of greater importance to the profession that a high level of professional duty be maintained, than to protect the retaining lien of a lawyer....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.