214 W. Va. 83 - In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2019
19 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996)
Relies on Anderson v. United States · LaRocca v. United States · Ciuzio v. United States · 144 W. Va. 504 - West Virginia State Bar v. Earley · 160 W. Va. 172 - State Ex Rel . Harris v. Calendine
Most-quoted passages
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“[i]n a proceeding for reinstatement of an attorney’s license after annulment general testimony that the petitioner either is or is not of good moral character is entitled to little weight. Where the petitioner shows a record of honorable behavior since disbarment, and the correction of or recovery from any identifiable vices or illnesses, the petitioner’s burden has been met and the burden is then upon the Committee on Legal Ethics, if they wish to contest reinstatement, to present facts and circumstances which would lead to an inference of bad character or lack of fitness to practice law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]bsent a showing by the Committee on Legal Ethics that reinstatement will endanger the public, an attorney's license to practice will be reinstated after five years of good behavior after disbarment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A lawyer shall not: ... 3) Neglect a legal matter entrusted to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.