In Re Meyerson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Konigsberg v. State Bar of Cal. (1961), Maryland State Bar Ass'n v. Agnew (1974)
80 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 Wall · Raffel v. United States · Ex Parte in the Matter of David a Secombe · Rheb v. Bar Ass'n of Baltimore · In Re Stump
Most-quoted passages
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“"`A subsequent petition for admission to the bar involves a new inquiry as to whether, in the interval following the rendering of the judgment of removal, the petitioner has become a proper person to hold such office.' In re Keenan, Petitioner, 310 Mass. [166] at page 170, 37 N.E.2d at page 519. Such an inquiry is directed to the facts of the particular case, but seems to be approached in a somewhat different attitude in different jurisdictions. In re Stump, 272 Ky. 593, 597 , 114 S.W.2d 1094, 1096 , the court classified the many decisions as establishing three rules, a `lax rule', a `strict rule', and a `reasonable middle rule.' It would serve no useful purpose to review the multitude of cases in different jurisdictions. Some cases, we think, do reflect a `lax rule' which is not consistent with the principles, regarding admission and disbarment, shortly stated by Lord Mansfield, expanded in the Maryland statutes and applied in rules of this court and in decisions of this court and the Supreme Court. As disbarment is not punishment, likewise we think due regard for the administration of justice does not permit disbarment and reinstatement to be made mere adjuncts to reform schools and the parole system. The authorities that seem to us the best considered take a different view, which is consistent with the principles recognized in Maryland. " In Matter of Kaufmann, 245 N.Y. 423, 427 , 157 N.E. 730, 731 , it was held that after a lawyer, automatically disbarred upon conviction ”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`The question is, whether, after the conduct of this man, it is proper that he should continue a member of a profession which should stand free from all suspicion. * * * It is not by way of punishment; but the court, in such cases, exercise their discretion whether a man whom they have formerly admitted is a proper person to be continued on the roll or not.' Ex parte Brownsall, 1778, 2 Cowp. 829 (Lord Mansfield), quoted in Ex parte Wall, 107 U.S. 265, 273 , 2 S.Ct. 569 , 27 L.Ed. 552 , and in Rheb v. Bar Association of Baltimore, 186 Md. [200] at page 205, 46 A.2d 289, 291 [(1946)]. The requirement that an applicant for admission be of `good moral character', and the fact that of the six statutory grounds of disbarment only the first two (tautological) grounds are limited to professional, as distinguished from personal offenses, illustrate the breadth of Lord Mansfield's statement and of the later authorities applying various statutory provisions which are elaborations of his brief statement." Id. at 675-76. (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No 'moral character qualification for Bar membership' is more important than truthfulness and candor”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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