Elton v. Dougherty’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 21 Cal. 3d 303 - Kirsch v. Duryea · 248 So. 2d 479 - Fisher v. State · 403 So. 2d 624 - ATLANTIC COMMERCIAL DEV. CORP. v. Nortek, Inc. · 482 So. 2d 568 - Hollis v. F.B. Myers & Bro. Co. · Cohen v. Tzimas
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that in a civil case any attorney of record has the right to terminate the attorney-client relationship and to withdraw as an attorney of record upon due notice to his client and approval by the court. Approval by the court should be rarely withheld and then only upon a determination that to grant said request would interfere with the efficient and proper functioning of the court. The approval of the court of such withdrawal will not relieve the attorney of any civil liability for breach of duty or negligence to his client nor from appropriate disciplinary procedures for such act, if it is wrongfully done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowin v. Molyneaux
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.