Wintter v. Fabber’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2018
9 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 National Equipment Rental Ltd. v. Mercury Typesetting Company, and Third Party v. Statmaster Corporation, Third Party Edmund H. H. Caddy v. Statmaster Corporation, Statmaster Corporation v. Walter J. Bruchhausen, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York · Bulk Oil Transports, Inc. v. Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. · In re San Juan Gold, Inc. · Pomerantz v. Schandler · 574 So. 2d 325 - Bonfiglio v. Hampton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right to retain the papers is valuable to the attorney in proportion as denial of access to them causes inconvenience to the client. Where the client or someone representing him has a pressing necessity for them, the court will order them delivered up upon condition that the fee be paid or security given for such sum as may be found to be due .... The attorney’s lien cannot be disregarded merely because the pressure it is supposed to exert becomes effective.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the erstwhile client is entitled to delivery of his papers or other property subject to the lien only if he pays the amount due or secures the payment thereof. To do otherwise, as the jurisprudence points out, nullifies the effect and purpose of the lien.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fox v. Widjaya
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.