Armstrong v. McAlpin’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 433 · 1980
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 14 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord (1981), Armstrong v. McAlpin (1983)
85 federal appellate · 14 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 207 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1912
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Faretta v. California · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Abney v. United States
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) where an attorney’s conflict of interests in violation of Canons 5 and 9 of the Code of Professional Responsibility undermines the court’s confidence in the vigor of the attorney’s representation of his client, ... or more commonly (2) where the attorney is at least potentially in a position to use privileged information concerning the other side through prior representation, for example, in violation of Canons 4 and 9, thus giving his present client an unfair advantage.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“If a lawyer is required to decline employment or to withdraw from employment under a Disciplinary Rule, no partner, or associate, or any other lawyer affiliated with him or his firm, may accept or continue such employment.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[Pjossible ethical conflicts surfacing during a litigation are generally better addressed by the comprehensive disciplinary machinery of the state and federal bar.”) (quotations omitted), vacated on other grounds, 449 U.S. 1106, 101 S.Ct. 911, 66 L.Ed.2d 835 (1981); W.T. Grant Co. v. Haines, 531 F.2d 671, 677 (2d Cir.1976) (If counsel”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.