Lambdin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2003
14 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 Worthen v. State ex rel. Verner · Richardson v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Practice of the law is an impersonal name applied to the mechanics of administering justice through the medium of judges and lawyers. The administration of justice is a service rendered by the State to the public and exacts of those who engage in it the highest degree of confidence and good faith. No service furnished by the State more vitally affects the public. We practice law by grace, not by right. The privilege to practice law is in no sense proprietary. The State may grant it or refuse it, or it may withdraw it from those who abuse it. " (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It appears that the complaint which is the gist of the motion to disbar was filed by the Grievance Committee of the St. Petersburg Bar Association. It was addressed to one of the Circuit Judges under oath and stated that the contents `are true to the best of affiant's knowledge and belief'. On this point, the only requirement of the statute is that the motion to disbar be in writing and in the name of the State. No particular form of verification is required. Under such circumstances, we have held that it does not have to be under oath. Richardson v. State, 141 Fla. 218 , 192 So. 876 . In Worthen v. State ex rel. Verner, 189 Ala. 395 , 66 So. 686 , the Supreme Court of Alabama has approved the like rule affecting a statute almost identical with ours. Other decisions are to like effect."”
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.