Sperry v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When an attorney dies or is removed or suspended or withdraws from the case or ceases to act as an attorney, the party to an action for whom such attorney was acting, must before any further proceedings are had against him, be required by the adverse party, by written notice to appoint another attorney or to appear in person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Loporto v. Hoegemann

2. “no-tif[ied] his clients by letter of his withdrawal and his reasons for doing so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roderick v. Ricks