Wallace v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Saucier v. Hayes Dairy Products, Inc. (1979), McKenzie v. Burris (1973)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 United States v. Sealy, Inc. · Lathrop v. Donohue · In Re Integration of State Bar of Oklahoma · In Re Constitutionality of Chapter 315, Laws of 1943 · In Re Integration of the Nebraska State Bar Ass'n
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an active member of the State Bar of Georgia in good standing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Appellant's argument that the practice requirement include legal practice in other states directly conflicts with the judicial policy of Georgia that lawyers licensed to practice in other states will not be admitted to practice law in Georgia on the basis of comity. Rule 2-101 of the Rules and Regulations for Organization and Government of the State Bar of Georgia, Title 9 Appendix of the Georgia Code Annotated. "It is clear that the intent of the legislature when it imposed this practice requirement was to insure that the individuals who were elected to the office of district attorney would be experienced in the practice of law before the courts in which they would be required to perform their functions as district attorneys. It would be contrary to this intent to allow individuals who have not been licensed to practice before our superior courts to include their practice time in other states as partial satisfaction of Code §§ 2-4201 and 24-2901, the three-year practice requirement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abrams v. Lamone“indicate that such is a legislative function. This court’s recognition of such legislative enactments . . . does not mean that this court intended to, or even could relinquish this judicial responsibility to the legislature. On the contrary, this court has stated that the judiciary cannot be circumscribed or restricted in the performance of its power and duty to regulate the practice of law and has made it plain that it considers such legislation to be “in aid of the judiciary in the performance of its functions.” [Cit.]”
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.