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← 682 A.2d 194 - Wolf v. Sherman

Wolf v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
September 2017
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2017

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions

30199620002010decided

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

Applies 11 U.S.C. § 541

Relies on North Star Steel Co. v. Thomas · Midland Central Appraisal District v. Midland Industrial Service Corp. · Kellogg v. Winchell · District of Columbia v. Wical Ltd. Partnership · Continental Casualty Co. v. Kelly

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

  1. “We have agreed to continue to represent you [WSBA] in the Dyer appeal under the following terms and conditions: (1) It is understood and agreed that Sherman, Meehan & Curtin, P.C. shall have a lien against and shall be entitled to be paid from my sums that are recovered or awarded by way of agreement, settlement, judgment, or any other manner in the Dyer matter for all fees due and owing from your business.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Goldsmith v. William S. Bergman Associates, Inc.
  2. “arises when an attorney obtains a judgment [or settlement] for a client, and [is] merely a claim to equitable interference by the court to have that judgment [or settlement] held as security for . . the attorney's charges against the client.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Watters v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

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.