In Re Ryan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 34 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An attorney-client relationship is formed when a client and an attorney 'explicitly or by their conduct, manifest an intention to create the attorney/client relationship.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patrick F. Andrews v. United States · United States v. Crowder

2. “In determining what sanction may be appropriate under the circumstances, there are several factors that need to be considered. These include the nature of the violation, the mitigating and aggravating circumstances, the need to protect the public, the courts and the legal profession, and the moral fitness of the attorney to the extent we can discern it. [In re Ryan, 670 A.2d 375, 380 (1996).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Lewis

3. “[N]either a written agreement nor the payment of fees is necessary to create an attorney-client relationship. In re Lieber , 442 A.2d at 156 . All that is needed”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Seth Adam Robbins