Heiberger v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Daily v. New Britain Machine Co. (1986), Heslin v. Connecticut Law Clinic of Trantolo & Trantolo (1983)
98 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 State v. Peck · STATE BAR ASSN. v. Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. · Brydonjack v. State Bar · In Re Durant · Norwalk Street Railway Company's Appeal
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fixing the qualifications for, as well as admitting persons to, the practice of law in this state has ever been an exercise of judicial power”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Disciplinary proceedings are for the purpose of preserving the courts "from the official ministration of persons unfit to practise in them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Questions of law arising upon proceedings for admission to the bar are properly presented in a petition to the court”
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.