In Re Robert Matthew Bristol’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably In the Matter of Yalkut (2008), In the Matter of Stein (2008)
44 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 192 W. Va. 286 - Committee on Legal Ethics of the West Virginia State Bar v. McCorkle · 156 Wash. 2d 196 - In Re Disciplinary Proceeding Against Poole · In the Matter of Saab · 145 Ill. 2d 380 - In Re Witt · Notopoulos v. Statewide Grievance Committee
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he hearing committee is the only entity designated to take evidence during the course of a formal disciplinary proceeding. See Rule 17-314(0; see also Rule 17-313. Because the hearing committee directly observes witness testimony, it is in the best position to weigh the evidence, resolve matters of credibility, and choose between the conflicting inferences that may be drawn from the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Suspension is appropriate when a lawyer has not acted with intent to deceive the court, but when he knows that material information is being withheld and does not inform the court, with the result that there is injury or potential injury to a party, or an adverse or potentially adverse effect on the legal proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowingly fails to perform services for a client and causes injury or potential injury to a client[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Salazar
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.