155 W. Va. 516 - In Re Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2014
3 federal appellate · 18 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 COMMITTEE ON LEGAL ETHICS OF W. VA. BAR v. Pietranton · Committee On Legal Ethics of West Virginia State Bar v. Pietranton · 131 W. Va. 66 - In Re: Damron · State v. Shumate · 135 W. Va. 126 - In Re Marcum
Most-quoted passages
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“* * * Upon final submission of the case, the court shall consider the same and shall, by order entered of record, dismiss the complaint, administer a public reprimand to the attorney, suspend the attorney's license to practice law in this State for such period of time and upon such terms and conditions as may be adjudged by the court, annul the attorney's license to practice law in this State, or take such other action as the court in its judgment may consider proper, which order may include such provisions for reimbursement of the actual and necessary expenses incurred by the committee in connection with said case as the court shall deem just.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a court proceeding prosecuted by the Committee on Legal Ethics of the West Virginia State Bar, for the purpose of having annulled the license of an attorney to practice law, the burden is on the committee to prove, by full, preponderating and clear evidence, the charge contained in the complaint filed on behalf of the committee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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