People v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Johnson v. Riebesell (2009), In Re Pautler (2002)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 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 Matter of James · People v. Morley · Matter of Weiner · Matter of Petrie · People v. Distel
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attorney-client relationship is established when it is shown that the client seeks and receives the advice of the lawyer on the legal consequences of the client’s past or contemplated actions. The relationship may be inferred from the conduct of the parties. The proper test is a subjective one, and an important factor is whether the client believes that the relationship existed. Further, the attorney-client relationship is an ongoing relationship giving rise to a continuing duty to the client unless and until the client clearly understands, or reasonably should understand, that the relationship is no longer to be depended on.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1(ag). 25 . Id. 12 . Respondent claimed it did not occur to him that Colo. RPC 1.8(a) applied to his transactions with the Lindseys because he was not performing legal services for them at the time of the loan, and he primarily viewed Mr. Lindsey as a friend rather than a client. Colorado Supreme Court case law provides that "the attorney-client relationship is an ongoing relationship giving rise to a continuing duty to the client unless and until the client clearly understands, or reasonably should understand, that the relationship is no longer to be depended on.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the board's factual findings are binding on this court unless, after considering the record as a whole, the findings are unsupported by substantial evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re C De Baca · In Re Pautler
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.