Danforth v. Egan’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably Clark v. Austin (1937), Ex Parte Thompson (1933)
31 state decisions — followed in 16 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 People ex. rel. Hughes v. May · State ex rel. Cornwell v. Allen · Jamieson v. Wiggin · Howard v. Burns · People ex rel. Baxter v. Hallett
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Did the framers of the Constitution intend to indirectly take from the courts, in favor of a certain excepted class of persons, a right which the statutes of the territory had recognized as resting in the courts a right recognized for centuries, by all countries and states having laws based on the English common law, as the inherent right of the court, a right necessary in the very nature of courts and the duties devolving upon them, a right which, if lost, would soon bring the courts of our land into contempt the right to say who shall as attorneys be recognized as officers of the courts.... This right of the courts is as much the law of our land, and of as much dignity as such, as any law found in the Constitution or statutes."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[W]e venture that it has never before occurred to any one that this office could be filled by one not an `attorney,' as the word `attorney' is understood when applied to a prosecuting officer.... ..... "This right to practice law, to be an `officer of the court,' is not an absolute right, but is a privilege or license."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We think the word `attorney' in the name of the officer holding this office ... forecloses all question as to intent of the framers of the Constitution."”
2 later decisions 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.