Douglas' Case’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2025
6 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 Richmond's Case · Morgan's Case · Nardi's Case · Coffey's Case · Wolterbeek's Case
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The referee concluded that the [attorney] knowingly violated the duty to preserve her client’s property, the duty to be candid and the duty to maintain personal integrity, and that her conduct caused injury or potential injury to [the client]. As the referee found, “the [attorney] knowingly converted [the client’s] property when she withdrew the $49,000 from her trust account, without [the client’s] knowledge or permission, and applied it to her fees.” Accordingly, disbarment is the proper sanction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Appeal of Stacy
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.