Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 1 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is ... established law that an attorney cannot avoid disqualification merely by 'firing' the disfavored client . and transforming a continuing relationship to a former relationship by way of client abandonment. Indeed, the offense inherent in taking on the conflicting representation is compounded by seeking to 'fire' the client in pursuit of the attorney's interest in taking on a new, more attractive, representation. If . the act of suing one's client is a dramatic form of disloyalty, what might be said of trying to drop the first client in an effort to free the attorney to pursue his or her self-interest in taking on a newer and more attractive professional engagement?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reed v. Hoosier Health Systems, Inc.

2. “Indeed, the offense inherent in taking on the conflicting representation is compounded by seeking to “fire” the client in pursuit of the attorney’s interest in taking on a new, more attractive representation. If, as one judge has written, “the act of suing one’s client is a ‘dramatic form of disloyalty,’ what might be said of trying to drop the first client in an effort to free the attorney to pursue his or her self-interest in taking on a newer and more attractive professional engagement?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. El Camino Resources, Ltd. v. Huntington National Bank