Keefe v. Bernard’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · Upjohn Company v. United States · Diversified Industries, Inc. v. Meredith · Decker v. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. · Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Honorable Bernard M. Decker, United States District Judge
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A practicing attorney ... shall not be allowed, in giving testimony, to disclose any confidential communication properly entrusted to the person in the person’s professional capacity, and necessary and proper to enable the person to discharge the functions of the person’s office according to the usual course of practice or discipline.”
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.