Liew v. Breen’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 1046 · 1981
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Eavenson, Auchmuty & Greenwald v. Holtzman (1985), 36 Cal. 3d 98 - People v. Chapman (1984)
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Jeffers v. United States · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · United States v. Bornstein · Data Disc, Inc. v. Systems Technology Associates, Inc.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a party ... fails to obey an order to provide or permit discovery ... the court shall require the party or the attorney advising that party or both to pay reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees, caused by the failure, unless the court finds that the failure was substantially justified or that other circumstances make an award of expenses unjust.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 37(b)(2) provides for an award of reasonable expenses and attorney’s fees 'caused by the failure to obey a court order to provide or permit discovery’. This provision must be distinguished from Rule 37(a), which provides for the award of expenses resulting from efforts to secure an order compelling discovery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Both the California and the federal courts recognize ... that such information may come within the ambit of the privilege when the client's name itself has an independent significance, such that disclosure would uncover client confidences.”
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.