Nichols v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1999
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Fischer-Hansen v. . Bklyn. Heights R.R. Co. · Standidge v. Chicago Railways Co. · Curtis v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. · Fillmore v. Wells · O'Connor v. St. Louis Transit Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The attorney’s lien, whether under the statute or at common law, is equitable in its nature. ... It is not property in the thing which gives a right of action at law. It is a charge upon the thing which is protected in equity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Millsap v. Sparks
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.