In Re Rothman’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2000
22 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 People Ex Rel. Karlin v. Culkin · Hexter Title & Abstract Co. v. Grievance Committee · Stack v. P. G. Garage, Inc. · Jacobs v. the State Bar · In re Cohen
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a profession, the law must be thought of a,s ignoring commercial standards of success — as possessing special duties to serve the state’s justice — and as an applied science requiring scientific training. And, if it is thus set apart as a profession, it must have traditions and tenets of its own, which are to be mastered and lived up to. This living spirit of the profession, which limits yet uplifts it as a livelihood, has been customarily known by the vague term ‘legal ethics. ’ There is much more to it than rules of ethics. There is a whole atmosphere of life’s behavior. What is signified is all the learning about the traditions of behavior that mark off and emphasize the legal profession as a guild of public officers. And the apprentice must hope and expect to make full acquaintance with this body of traditions, as his manual of equipment, without which he cannot do his part to keep the law on the level of a profession.’ ” [Italics supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““27. Advertising, Direct or Indirect It is unprofessional to solicit professional employment * * * through touters * * * “35. Intermediaries The professional services of a lawyer should not be controlled or exploited by any lay agency, personal or corporate, which intervenes between client and lawyer. A lawyer’s responsibilities and qualifications are individual. He should avoid all relations which direct the performance of his duties by or in the interest of such intermediary. A lawyer’s relation to his client should be personal, and the responsibility should be direct to the client. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Kamp“the practice of law is a profession and not a business,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.