Button v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008
5 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 Lathrop v. Donohue · In Re Constitutionality of Chapter 315, Laws of 1943 · In Re Integration of the Nebraska State Bar Ass'n · Lathrop v. Donohue · In Re Petition for Integration of Bar of Minnesota
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“promulgate and amend rules and regulations . . . [p]rescribing a code of ethics governing the professional conduct of attorneys-at-law . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(c) Prescribing procedure for disciplining, suspending, and disbarring attorneys-at-law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“incident to the exercise of the judicial power which is vested”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moreau v. Fuller
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.