In re Itron, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
883 F.3d 553 · 2018
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Upjohn Company v. United States · Crawford-El v. Britton · Cheney v. United States District Court for District of Columbia · Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond · Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“privilege to refuse to disclose ... any confidential communication[s] made to facilitate professional legal services, if those communications were made between the client ... and [his] lawyer or among lawyers ... representing the same client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a party entitled to claim the attorney-client privilege uses confidential information against his adversary (the sword), he implicitly waives its use protectively (the shield) under that privilege.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mandamus is an appropriate means of relief if a district court errs in ordering the discovery of privileged documents, as such an order would not be reviewable on appeal.”
1 later decision 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.