James J. Kevlik v. David B. Goldstein, Town of Derry’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
43 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably United States Football League v. National Football League (1985), 189 W. Va. 290 - State Ex Rel. McClanahan v. Hamilton (1993)
43 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Eisenstadt v. Baker · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · 113 F. Supp. 265 - T. C. Theatre Corp. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Emle Industries, Inc. v. Patentex, Inc.
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘assume that during the course of the former representation confidences were disclosed to the attorney bearing on the subject matter of the representation. It will not inquire into the nature and extent. Only in this manner can the lawyer’s duty of absolute fidelity be enforced and the spirit of the rule relating to privileged communications be maintained.’”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Model Code of Professional Responsibility, DR 1-103(A) clearly requires that an attorney come forward if he has knowledge of an actual or potential violation of a Disciplinary Rule . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“report such knowledge to a tribunal or other authority,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ambush v. Engelberg
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.