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In Re Wright’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

62
cited by 62 later decisions
7
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Kasper (1979), In Re Berk (1991)

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions

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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 Armstrong v. Hanover Insurance Company · In Re Monaghan · Laird Properties New England Land Syndicate v. Mad River Corp. · In Re Haddad · Temple Et Ux. v. Atwood

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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In some ways, an attorney who deliberately and skillfully operates consistently at the very verge of ethical limits to his own benefit is more to be condemned than the attorney who, on a single occasion, under pressure, definitely breaks through ethical bounds. It is the first [person] that the public abhors, distrusts and condemns with good reason.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In re Glenn Robinson, Esq. (Office of Disciplinary Counsel)
  2. “in such a manner that he undertook specific actions to benefit one client to the detriment of two other clients.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In re Glenn Robinson, Esq. (Office of Disciplinary Counsel)
  3. “knowingly and wilfully put himself in a position where he was undoubtedly representing conflicting interests”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In re Glenn Robinson, Esq. (Office of Disciplinary Counsel)

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.