 The reaction to the trial and to Erskine's speech was tremendous; upon leaving the court he was given a standing ovation by the attorneys present, many of whom offered him briefs on the spot. Joseph Jekyll reported that the court was "in a trance of amazement", and Emory Speer wrote that "It is probably true that never did a single speech so completely insure professional success". Erskine claimed to have received 65 briefs immediately after the trial as a result of the case, which may be an exaggeration, although he undoubtedly did well out of his victory. He became Lord Chancellor in the Ministry of All the Talents and was renowned as an excellent, albeit unorthodox, advocate. Sandwich remained in office until the government fell in 1792; Baillie, on the other hand, was not reinstated at the Hospital despite an insistent effort to regain his former position. The events of the trial were replicated in an episode of Garrow's Law, with William Garrow depicted as representing Baillie (rather than Erskine) and his main antagonist, Arthur Hill, replacing Lord Sandwich.
