In Re Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 district · 22 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 Matter of James · In Re Ryan · In Re Hines · In Re Peek · Estate of Chappelle v. Sanders
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Respondent suggests that it is the West Virginia rules that are applicable to his conduct as a matter of choice of law. This argument is basically moot since respondent does not demonstrate how the result would be different if we applied West Virginia’s version of the Rules of Professional Responsibility rather than our own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Bernstein“[N]either a written agreement nor the payment of fees is necessary to create an attorney-client relationship. In re Lieber , 442 A.2d at 156 . All that is needed”
1 later decision 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.