In Re Monaghan’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably In Re the Application of Allan S. (1978), Application of Matthews (1983)
4 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Ex parte Garland · Willner v. Committee on Character and Fitness, Appellate Div. of Supreme Court of NY, First Judicial Dept. · 13 Cal. 2d 741 - McDonough v. Goodcell · Heiberger v. Clark
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By a rule which is almost universal (in the United States at least).the personal knowledge and belief of the witness to character is rigorously excluded, and the community reputation is all that will be listened to.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Wright““The test is whether that behavior truly portrays an inherent and fixed quality of character of an unsavory, dishonest, debased and corrupt nature.” In re Monaghan, 222 A.2d 665 at 671 (Vt.1966).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Application of Klahr“a condition precedent to the privilege of taking the bar examinations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.