Elliott v. Joyce’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2024
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 38 N.C. App. 61 - Covington v. Rhodes · Zaklama v. Mount Sinai Medical Center · Denver Joint Stock Land Bank v. Markham · Hobart v. Decker · Hensel v. Cohen
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a statement of the contingency upon which the client is to be liable to pay compensation otherwise than from amounts collected for him by the attorney.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After the matter was settled, Elliott filed an attorney's lien . seeking recovery of attorney fees ... based on time and effort for services rendered, under the theory of quantum meruit - . [The trial court accepted 'the proceeds of the settlement ... to be held by the court until James Elliotts attorney's lien question is resolved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e do not disapprove of contingent fee arrangements permitting recovery by attorneys from clients in quantum meruit. However, in order to enforce such agreements, a client's liability must be expressly provided within the written contingent fee agreement, as required by our rules.”
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.