Bernard Selling v. George W Radford’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 17 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Matter of Rouss (1917), State Bar of Nevada v. Claiborne (1988)
7 federal appellate · 17 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Ex Parte John L Tillinghast · In re Radford
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e should recognize . . . the judgment of the state court unless, from an intrinsic consideration of the state record, one or all of the following conditions should appear: 1, That the state procedure, from want of notice or opportunity to be heard, was wanting in due process; 2, that there was such an infirmity of proof as to facts found . . . as to give rise to a clear conviction on our part that we could not, consistently with our duty, accept as final the conclusion on that subject; or 3, that some other grave reason existed . . . which rests upon us not to disbar . . . under the principles of right and justice . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the continued possession of a fair private and professional character”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolutely destroy the condition of fair private and professional character, without the possession of which there could be no possible right to continue to be a member”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.