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← 181 Vt. 555 - In re Conner

In re Conner’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
November 2020
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar · Western and Southern Life Insurance Company v. State Board of Equalization of California · New Energy Co. of Indiana v. Limbach · Supreme Court of NH v. Piper

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Courts maintain a strong interest in ensuring the competency of legal practitioners within their jurisdiction, and to this end enjoy broad power to establish licensing standards for lawyers as officers of the court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[the ... time frame is a generous but reasonable means of assuring that the applicant has achieved and maintained the skills and fitness required for the practice of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[TJhe focus on the ... period immediately preceding the application ... ensures] that the applicant remains currently competent and in good standing,”
    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.