McKenzie Construction Inc v. L Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Bergstrom v. Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust (1996), 751 F. Supp. 525 - In Re SmithKline Beckman Corp. Securities Litigation (1990)
3 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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 Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Erickson v. United States · Dewees v. United States · Corning Glass Works v. Brennan · Dunn v. H. K. Porter Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having recognized that the circumstances surrounding both negotiation and performance should be examined, we also emphasize that courts should be reluctant to disturb contingent fee arrangements freely entered into by knowledgeable and competent parties. Further, a prompt and efficient attorney who achieves a fair settlement without litigation serves both his client and the interests of justice. It should therefore be the unusual circumstance that a court refuses to enforce a contractual contingent attorney’s fee arrangement because of events arising after the contract’s negotiation. (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.