Wieder v. Skala’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 1164 - General Dynamics Corp. v. Superior Court (1994), Northeast General Corp. v. Wellington Advertising, Inc. (1993)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 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 Weiner v. McGraw-Hill, 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ntrinsic to [the hiring of an attorney to practice law] ... was the unstated but essential compact that in conducting the firm's legal practice both plaintiff and the firm would do so in compliance with the prevailing rules of conduct and ethical standards of the profession.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Plaintiffs] employment as a lawyer to render professional services as an associate with a law firm differs in several respects from the employments in Murphy and Sabetay .... plaintiffs performance of professional services for the firm’s clients as a duly admitted member of the Bar was at the very core and, indeed, the only purpose of his association with defendants. Associates are, to be sure, employees of the firm but they remain independent officers of the court responsible in a broader public sense for their professional obligations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is in this distinctive relationship between a law firm and a lawyer hired as an associate that plaintiff finds the implied-in-law obligation on which he founds his claim.”
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.