Jacobson v. Garaas’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025
7 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 Gentile v. State Bar of Nev. · Berner v. Delahanty · Ryan v. County of DuPage · Jablonsky v. Klemm · Matter of Estate of Hill
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a lot of things that are going to have to be resolved, and I guess frankly I have a question in my mind as to whether or not the Court wants to enter into a course of action that places the trial court judge and the State of North Dakota at risk.... So when you ask me a question as to whether or not we are going to sign a deed, there are so many things that still have yet to be resolved that why would the Court want to put this Court and the State of North Dakota at risk when we are guaranteed to have another lawsuit, guaranteed to have another trial to determine whether or not there has been damages or a quiet title action and establish what the record is for this property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The lawyer's function is to present evidence and argument so that the cause may be decided according to law. Refraining from abusive or obstreperous conduct is a corollary of the lawyer's right to speak on behalf of litigants.... A lawyer can present the cause, protect the record for subsequent review and preserve professional integrity by patient firmness no less effectively than by belligerence or theatrics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Your Honor, I cannot let it go by one more time because Mr. Spaeth just lied to you one more time.... That representation by Mr. Spaeth is an absolute falsehood and he can't get away with it anymore.... And we will never accept Mr. Spaeth's false representation in violation of the Canons and in violation of every concept of due process that I know.”
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.