Budnitz' Case’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Basbanes' Case (1996), Coffey’s Case (2008)
3 district · 23 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 Spead v. Tomlinson · Flint's Case · Astles' Case · Bourdon's Case · Welts' 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attempting to mislead the [disciplinary] committee in an effort to cover up [misconduct] . . . evidences serious disregard for the institutions the respondent as an attorney has sworn to protect and uphold, and disbarment is the only sanction that will truly protect the public and maintain public confidence in the bar under these circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coffey’s Case“An applicant for admission to the bar, or a lawyer in connection with a bar admission application or in connection with a disciplinary matter, shall not: (a) knowingly make a false statement of material fact....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Acknowledgement of Employment Termination”
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.