No. 90-5901’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably United States v. Evans (1997), Hawkins v. Stables (1998)
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · United States v. Schwimmer · Continental Oil Co. v. United States · In re LTV Securities Litigation · Transmirra Products Corp. v. Monsanto Chemical Co.
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persons who share a common interest in litigation”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause 'the need to protect free flow of information from client to attorney logically exists whenever multiple clients share a common interest about a legal matter.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Selby v. O'Dea
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.