Ex Parte Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Smith v. Smith (1950), Attorney Grievance Commission v. Kerpelman (1980)
107 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Bradley v. Fisher · Pargoud v. United States · Wall · Ex parte Bradley · People Ex Rel. Karlin v. Culkin
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judicial power of the state shall be vested in the senate sitting as a court of impeachment, a supreme court, circuit courts, chancery courts, courts of probate, such courts of law and equity inferior to the supreme court, and to consist of not more than five members, as the legislature from time to time may establish, and such persons as may be by law invested with powers of a judicial nature . . . ” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Due consideration of the adjudged cases in the several states of the Union leads us to the conclusion — which is unescapable — that the courts have the inherent power to suspend or to remove attorneys without trial by jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We fail to see, in the creation of the board of commissioners of the state bar with the powers conferred, any transgression of constitutional bounds by the Legislature ***.***””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Griffith
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.