Webster v. Sweat’s Empirical Analysis
65 F.2d 109 · 1933
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably Panola Land Buying Ass'n v. Clark (1988), United States v. Transocean Air Lines, Inc. (1966)
16 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 192
Relies on Central Railroad Banking Co of Georgia v. Pettus · Scott v. Armstrong · President of the Michigan State Bank v. Hastings · Weed Sewing Machine Co. v. Boutelle · Andrews v. Morse
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At common law an attorney has a lien on all papers of his client which come into his possession in the course of his professional employment. This lien is not limited to the papers in any particular suit, but extends to the general bal anee due to the attorney for any and all professional services performed by him for his client. It is passive, and ordinarily cannot be enforced by any proceeding in court, but it entitles the attorney to retain possession until all his fees are paid. [Citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an attorney has a lien on all ... money of his client which come[s] into his possession in the course of his professional employment. This lien entitles the attorney to retain possession ... until all his fees are paid.”
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.