Blessing v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 state decisions

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

1. ““ * * * What constitutes the ‘practicing of law’? If this court knows what every layman knows, then this court should have knowledge. There are two types of practicing lawyers: Those who confine their activities to the trial of cases in the courts; the others, to activities entirely within their offices. The latter may never appear in court, although they are in the true sense of the word ‘practicing lawyers.’ The Constitution did not prohibit Mr. Blessing from being either the one or the other type, and we take it that the rule of right requires a liberal interpretation of the terms ‘practicing law’ and the rule of wrong would be a limitation to the practice by appearances in the courts. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riddle v. Roy

2. ““ * * * A recent election was held in this municipality * * *. The successful candidate was to be an agent of the people * * * the qualified electors, approved the power of attorney for * * * [respondent] * * * They rejected the candidacy of the rela-trix. * * * The relatrix having lost the battle of ballots now petitions the court. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riddle v. Roy