Goetz v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably The State Bar of Texas v. Gomez (1994), Harlen v. City of Helena (1984)
28 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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 93-2002 was amended to its present form in 1915, and sincé that time this Court has carried out and enforced its provisions. This section became more than a legislative enact ment. It has been applied as a rule of the Montana Supreme Court. The admission and regulation of attorneys in Montana is a matter peculiarly within the inherent power of this Court, subject, of course, to constitutional guaranties, which the Court has always zealously guarded. ‘ ‘ Thus, we are faced with a demand by plaintiff that the district court construe a statute this court has applied for more than 50 years; adjudicate the validity of a rule of this Court; and issue an injunction against the Supreme Court of Montana. “We are not unwilling that the constitutionality of our rule and the legislative enactment be heard and determined on the merits, in a proper case. Indeed, the matter having been raised, it should perhaps he presented to this Court in an appropriate original proceeding. (This would allow the Court, if it chose, to examine the wisdom, of the rule, as well as its constitutionality.)””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no Montana district judge has jurisdiction to sit in the judgment of the Supreme Court of Montana”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his Court has supervisory control over the [district courts]. The converse is not true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.