In Re Lanza’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Matter of Hollendonner (1985), State v. Williams (1987)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“concluding that attorney should have first explained. . . all the facts and indicated in specific detail all of the areas of potential conflict that foreseeably might arise.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re: Congoleum Corp. Century Indemnity Company, as Successor to Cci Insurance Company, as Successor to Insurance Company of North American Ace American Insurance Company F/k/a Cigna Insurance Company Ace Property & Casualty Insurance Company F/k/a Cigna Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. Congoleum Corporation Congoleum Sales, Inc. Congoleum Fiscal, Inc · 234 N.J. Super. 471 - DeBolt v. Parker“A client cannot foresee and cannot be expected to foresee the great variety of potential areas of disagreement that may arise in a real estate transaction of this sort. The attorney is or should be familiar with at least the more common of these and they should be stated and laid before the client at some length and with considerable specificity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in all circumstances it is unethical for the same attorney to represent buyer and seller in negotiating the terms of a contract of sale.”
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.