Murrell v. Florida Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2006
4 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 93 So. 2d 601 - In Re Investigation of Circuit Judge · 103 So. 2d 632 - In Re Proposed Disciplinary Action by Florida Bar Against Circuit Judge · In re Dade County Bar Ass'n President's & State Attorney's Special Committee
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement of the disciplinary rule that investigations and hearings of disciplinary cases shall be prosecuted and completed as promptly as the ends of justice will permit states the most essential requirement, the reason being that the minute that such a proceeding is instituted the lawyer’s professional reputation is in danger of being permanently impaired and such charge should not be suspended in limbo but should be dispatched and if found to be without merit the lawyer charged should be exonerated. 31 F.S.A. Integration Rule of Florida Bar, art. 11.”
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.