Collins v. Thuringer’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Jenkins v. Weinshienk (1982), People Ex Rel. MacFarlane v. Harthun (1978)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 42 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 Fillmore v. Wells · Clatworthy v. Ferguson · Clark v. O'Donnell · Davidson v. Board of County Commissioners
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all papers, books, documents, securities, and money coming into an attorney's possession in the course of his professional employment. The attorney has a right to retain them in his possession until the general balance due him for legal services is paid, whether such services grew out of the special matters then in his hand, or other legal matters.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is intended to give constructive notice, so as to preserve the attorney's lien in the event that . . . some third person, without having . . . actual notice, should acquire an interest in the judgment or in its proceeds.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * (I)t was not the intention of the Legislature to abolish the well-established distinction between the two classes of liens (i. e. retaining liens and charging liens), and to create a lien upon a judgment and its proceeds to secure the payment of attorney’s fees earned in matters not at all connected with the suit in which the judgment is rendered. Collins’s claim for a lien to secure a general balance for services rendered in other matters was properly disallowed.””
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.