Staley v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Scinto v. Stamm (1993), 51 Cal. 2d 210 - Laird v. T. W. Mather, Inc. (1958)
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Boggs v. Merced Mining Co. · Spears v. State Bar
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if any dissatisfied applicant can show that he was denied passage of the state bar examinations through fraud, imposition or coercion * * *, this court will be willing to listen to his complaint”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Inability to pass the examinations, which are successfully passed by other applicants, will, of course, not be inquired into by 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.