Dankwardt v. Kermode’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2007
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Fillmore v. Wells · Harlan & Co. v. Bennett · Ely v. . Cooke · Whitehead v. Jessup · Hroch v. Aultman & Taylor Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]n the case of judgments obtained in whole . . . by any attorney, such attorney may file, with the clerk of the court wherein such cause is pending, notice of his claim as lienor. . . which notice, duly entered of record, shall be notice to all persons and to all parties, including . . . all persons claiming by, through, or under any person having obtained a judgment that the attorney . . . has a first lien . . . on such judgment for the amount of his fees."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T] he attorney's lien should, in equity and good conscience, prevail ... as it was only through [the attorney's] professional skill and efforts that the demand finally became of any settled and definite value at all. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“on any judgment they may have obtained or assisted in obtaining, in whole or in part, and on any and all claims and demands in suit, for any fees or balance of fees, due or to become due from any client.”
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.