Sheinkopf v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 1259 · 1991
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 111 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America v. Pleasant Street Corporation United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (1992), Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n (1998)
57 federal appellate · 111 district · 18 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Vandygriff v. Phillips · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a person seeks advice or assistance from an attorney, (2) the advice or assistance sought pertains to matters within the attorney's professional competence, and (3) the attorney expressly or impliedly agrees to give or actually gives the desired advice or assistance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a verified complaint ought to be treated as the functional equivalent of an affidavit to the extent that it satisfies the standards explicated in Rule 56(e)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to form a foundation for the implication of a relationship of trust and confidence, it must be objectively reasonable under the totality of the circumstances.”
4 later decisions 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.