Rucker v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
5
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fabio v. Bellomo · Pelletier v. Zweifel · Hoppe v. Klapperich · Plotner v. AT & T Corp. · Mandarino v. Pollard
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]lthough attorneys in the discharge of their professional duties are, in a restricted sense, agents of their clients, this agency is distinguishable from other agency relationships....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Privity exists where a non-party's 'interests are represented by a party to the action,' or where a party is 'otherwise so identified in interest with another that he represents the same legal right' with respect to a previously asserted claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Something more than the common objective of attorney and client in obtaining an outcome favorable to the client is necessary to establish privity.”
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.