Eshleman's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Matter of Addams (1990), Flint's Case (1990)
4 district · 32 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 28 Cal. 3d 195 - Olguin v. State Bar · In Re Unification of the New Hampshire Bar · 23 Ill. 2d 398 - In Re Crane · Delano's Case · Harrington's Case
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inattention and negligence in handling matters entrusted to an attorney by clients, and the resort to misleading statements to cover up these deficiencies to the detriment of clients do not measure up to the standards demanded of members of the bar of this State ... Misappropriation of clients’ funds is a serious error which in and of itself justified disbarment. Falsely representing that state of affairs under oath is reprehensible ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Sullivan
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.