In Re Cipriano’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Reardon v. Marlayne, Inc. (1980), In Re Nigohosian (1982)
6 district · 33 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 Erwin M. Jennings Co. v. DiGenova · In Re Kamp · State v. Galati · In Re Blatt · In Re Kushinsky
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o change sides during the struggle, where the subject matter was interrelated with that which the attorney initially handled ... generates a seeming conflict of interest even if no confidential information had been or would be utilized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The impropriety of taking a case against a former client is not based solely on neces- ■ sity for disclosure of confidential communications. If the former client has any reason to feel aggrieved, the necessity of maintaining proper public relations for the bar and of avoiding the appearance of wrongdoing should cause the attorney to refuse to accept employment in a capacity adverse to the interests of a former client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e must notice that in matters of ethics and professional probity, the cause and effect impact upon the public consciousness is almost, perhaps quite, as important as the actual fact.”
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.