Jones' Case’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2017
18 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 Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Maryland State Bar Ass'n v. Agnew · Flint's Case · Astles' Case · Matter of Silverman
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not come without the concomitant responsibilities of truth, candor and honesty.... [I]t can be said that the presence of these virtues in members of the bar comprises a large portion of the fulcrum upon which the scales of justice rest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“justify an increase in the degree of discipline to be imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coffey’s Case
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.