Pink v. Farrington’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.2d 465 · 1937
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably United States v. Jacobs (1961), Continental Casualty Co. v. Kelly (1939)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 Barnes v. Alexander · Trist v. Child · Eva Ingersoll v. Joseph a Coram a H · Calvin Nutt v. S Prentiss Knut K · Nutt v. Knut
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile it is not necessary that there be an outright legal assignment of the judgment to the attorney, it is indispensable that there exist between the client and his attorney an agreement from which the conclusion may reasonably be reached that they contracted with the understanding that the attorney’s charges were to be paid out of the judgment recovered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.