Menton v. Lattimore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... any communication passing between agents or representatives or the employees of any party to the action or communications between any party and his agents, representatives or their employees, where made subsequent to the occurrence or transaction upon which the suit is based, and made in connection with the prosecution, investigation or defense of the claim or the investigation of the occurrence or transaction out of which the claim has arisen.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones & Laughlin Steel, Inc. v. Schattman · Bearden v. Boone

2. “However, Relator’s conduct ... can have no effect on the plain language of Rule 186a, which makes the taped interview of June 30, 1981 privileged and not discoverable. We have not been referred to a case, and we have not found one, where any exception was made to the plain provisions of the work-product privilege of Rule 186a.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bearden v. Boone