Staples v. McKnight’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2018
2 federal appellate · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 193rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Alm v. Aluminum Co. of America · 65 Mich. App. 484 - Ambrose v. the Detroit Edison Co. · 87 Ill. App. 3d 662 - Upgrade Corp. v. Michigan Carton Co. · Royden v. Ardoin · Estate of Thomasson v. Boatmen's National Bank
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“certain causes justifying an attorney's voluntary withdrawal are set forth in our Code of Professional Responsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he critical question, then, is did [the former attorney] have just cause to withdraw,”
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.