15 Cal. 3d 609 - Sullins v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1990
24 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 3 Cal. 3d 381 - Demain v. State Bar · 13 Cal. 3d 162 - Bluestein v. State Bar · Pickering v. State Bar · 62 Cal. 2d 17 - Linnick v. State Bar · 14 Cal. 3d 517 - In Re Silverton
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“employ, for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to him such means only as are consistent with truth, and never to seek to mislead the judge or any judicial officer by an artifice or false statement of fact or law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unqualifiedly require[s] an attorney to refrain from acts which mislead or deceive 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.