13 Cal. 3d 567 - Tomlinson v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably 14 Cal. 3d 524 - In Re Kreamer (1975), 49 Cal. 3d 804 - Baker v. State Bar (1989)
82 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 6 Cal. 3d 562 - In Re Higbie · 4 Cal. 3d 786 - Himmel v. State Bar · 8 Cal. 3d 842 - In Re Fahey · 3 Cal. 3d 381 - Demain v. State Bar · 16 Cal. 2d 449 - In Re Rothrock
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`manifests an abiding disregard of "`the fundamental rule of ethics that of common honesty without which the profession is worse than valueless in the place it holds in the administration of justice'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“greater opportunity to observe and judge the credibility of the witnesses”
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.