Matter of Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2011
2 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on Matter of Rivera · Matter of Tapia · Matter of Hartley · Matter of Siler
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) He shall be supervised by a licensed New Mexico attorney selected or approved by a disciplinary counsel; (2) He shall meet with his supervisor on such regular basis as directed by the supervising attorney and that such meetings will occur no less than once per month; (3) He shall abide by his supervisor’s directives concerning the competent representation of his clients; (4) He shall confer with his supervisor at least once per month regarding the volume of his caseload and he shall abide by the supervising attorney’s determination of whether he may accept new cases and, if so, the number of new cases he may accept, which determination will be based upon a showing by Reif that he has the time and expertise needed to handle his caseload competently and with reasonable diligence, including but not limited to having sufficient time to communicate adequately with clients and opposing counsel, conducting research, filing appropriate pleadings, and conducting or responding to discovery; (5) He shall accept instruction from his supervisor in the areas of law office management, caseload management, and the development of a system for prompt communication with clients and opposing counsel, and shall demonstrate his understanding of these matters to the satisfaction of his supervisor; (6) Any failure to follow all reasonable directions from the supervising attorney in a prompt and satisfactory manner may result in disciplinary counsel filing a verified motion to show cause, pursuan”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Houston · Matter of Reif
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.