Bell v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2018
4 federal appellate · 8 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 169 Ind. App. 413 - Weenig v. Wood · Bud Wolf Chevrolet, Inc. v. Robertson · Elliott v. Roach · FD Borkholder Co., Inc. v. Sandock · 188 Cal. App. 3d 927 - Wortham & Van Liew v. Superior Court
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are few of the business relations of life involving a higher trust and confidence than that of attorney and client, or, generally speaking, none more honorably and faithfully discharged; few more anxiously guarded by the law, or governed by sterner principles of morality and justice; and it is the duty of the court to administer them in a corresponding spirit, and to be watchful and industrious, to see that confidence thus reposed shall not be used to the detriment or prejudice of the rights of the party best owing it. It is a basic principle of professional conduct that an attorney must faithfully, honestly, and consistently represent the interest and protect the rights of his client, and that he is bound to discharge his duties to his client with the strictest fidelity, to observe the highest and utmost good faith, and to inform his client promptly of any known information important to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holleman v. Cotton“A lawyer commits a breach of trust going to the very essence of the attorney-client relationship when he takes a position adverse to that of his client, or former client, in a business transaction. Attorneys must not allow their private interests to conflict with those of their client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"An award of punitive damages is designed to punish the defendant and to deter him and others from like conduct in the future. All awards of punitive damages must be supported by a finding that the public interest will be served by punishing the wrongdoer."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.