attorney-client privilege
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 24 U.S. 280 - Chirac · 1826Most cited · 146 citing opinions
confidential communications between client and attorney, are not to be revealed at any time. The privilege, indeed, is not that of the attorney, but of the client; and it is indispensable for the purposes of private justice. Whatever facts, therefore, are communicated by a client to counsel, solely on account of that relation, such counsel are not at liberty, even if they wish, to disclose; and the law holds their testimony incompetent.
How often courts cite the case defining “attorney-client privilege”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “attorney-client privilege” — 143 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.