In re Pagano’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Hartford, Inc. v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care (1993), Statewide Grievance Committee v. Rozbicki (1989)
67 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 · State v. Peck · Cannavo Enterprises, Inc. v. Burns · In Re Durant · Hayward v. Plant
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n attorney at law admitted to practice, and in the exercise of the right thus conferred to act as an officer of the court in the administration of justice, is continually accountable to it for the manner in which he exercises the privilege which has been accorded him. His admission is upon the implied condition that his continued enjoyment of the right conferred is dependent upon his remaining a fit and safe person to exercise it, so that when he, by misconduct in any capacity, discloses that he has become or is an unfit or unsafe person to be entrusted with the responsibilities and obligations of an attorney, his right to continue in the enjoyment of the professional privilege may and ought to be declared forfeited. As important as it is that an attorney be competent to deal with the oftentimes intricate matters which may be entrusted to him, it is infinitely more so that he be upright and trustworthy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an attorney [who is the subject of a disciplinary proceeding] may be characterized as a party aggrieved by the decision of the court . . . thereby qualifying him to pursue an appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is neither a civil action nor a criminal proceeding, but is a proceeding sui generis, the object of which is not the punishment of the offender, but the protection of 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.