70 Cal. 2d 272 - Linsk v. Linsk’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 26 Cal. 3d 557 - People v. Johnson (1980), 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope (1979)
4 federal appellate · 126 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 Gagnon Co., Inc. v. Nevada Desert Inn · Smith v. Whittier · Blache v. Blache · Newman v. Los Angeles Transit Lines · In Re Guardianship of the Person & Estate of Sullivan
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If counsel merely employs his best discretion in protecting his client's rights and achieving his client's fundamental goals, his authority to proceed in any appropriate manner has been unquestioned. On the other hand, if counsel abdicates a substantial right of the client contrary to express instructions, he exceeds his authority.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“attorney is authorized by virtue of his employment to bind the client in procedural matters arising during the course of the action but he may not impair the client's substantial rights or the cause of action itself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An attorney retained to represent a client in litigation is clothed with certain authority by reason of that relationship. `The attorney is authorized by virtue of his employment to bind the client in procedural matters arising during the course of the action.... "In retaining counsel for the prosecution or defense of a suit, the right to do many acts in respect to the cause is embraced as ancillary, or incidental to the general authority conferred, and among these is included the authority to enter into stipulations and agreements in all matters of procedure during the progress of the trial. Stipulations thus made, so far as they are simply necessary or incidental to the management of the suit, and which affect only the procedure or remedy as distinguished from the cause of action itself, and the essential rights of the client, are binding on the client.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.