Astles' Case’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Brooks v. New Hampshire Supreme Court (1996), Basbanes' Case (1996)
5 federal appellate · 29 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 Flint's Case · Mussman's Case · Silverstein's Case · Nardi's Case · St. Pierre'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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In today’s society, more than ever before, the legal profession touches and affects nearly every facet of private and public life. Without debating the merits of this pervasiveness, one indisputable consequence of such an increase has occurred: the need for maintaining and requiring the highest possible levels of honesty and trustworthiness from the legal practitioners in this State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o single transgression reflects more negatively on the legal profession than a lie.”
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.