Elliott v. Orton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 24 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It seems by the Oklahoma statute that the attorney only has lien upon his client’s cause of action or counterclaim which attaches to any verdict, report, decision, findings, or judgment in his client’s favor, and the proceeds thereof wherever found. It seems to indicate that in order for the lien to become effective that there must be affirmative relief in favor of his client, and that any services which he may render that merely protect his client in the possession and right to his property are not covered by the attorney’s lien law. In other words, that the attorney has no lien upon the res of the action, but only upon any affirmative judgment rendered in his client’s favor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Levi v. Oklahoma City

2. ““The rule is, that any act on the part of the defendant by which he impliedly recognizes the validity of a judgment against him, operates as a waiver to appeal therefrom, or to bring error to reverse it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. First National Bank

3. ““A party who voluntarily acquiesces in or ratifies either partially or in toto, a judgment against him, cannot appeal from it.”'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wallace v. Boston Mutual Life Ins. Co.