Gilbert v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.2d 761 · 1979
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably United States v. Michigan (1991), Butler Fitzgerald v. Sequa Corporation (2001)
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Barnes v. Alexander · Gaines v. Dixie Carriers, Inc. · Chiriaco v. United States · Dozier v. United States · Kenneth R. Davis v. S. Ernest Vandiver, William H. Kelly and Paul E. Innecken
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is an absolute right to intervene, the former lawyer may attempt to assert new issues or indeed to interfere with the management of the lawsuit by his successor as if he were a co-owner of the claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It therefore appears that this [attorney's lien] was an interest in this litigation for which protection from the court can properly be sought by allowing the party to intervene in the pending action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may, however, if discharged from the case by his client, bring an action under quantum meruit for the reasonable value of services rendered”
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.