Cohen v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Brydonjack v. State Bar (1929), In Re Lavine (1935)
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Bronson v. Kinzie · Cochran v. Van Surlay · People v. Coleman · People ex rel. Smith v. Judge of the Twelfth District · Ex parte Andrews
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to practice law is not an absolute right, derived from the law of nature. It is the mere creature of the statute, and when the license is issued and the official oath taken, which authorizes the attorney to exercise the right, it confers but a statutory privilege, subject to the control of the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the same words, in the same or similar contexts, have elsewhere received a definite construction, the authority is entitled to the same weight ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Smith““The right to practice law is not a property right (Cohen v. Wright, 22 Cal. 293 ), but is a privilege or franchise (6 C. J. 569, and eases cited.) ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Craft v. Balderston
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.