26 Cal. App. Supp. 2d 768 - People v. Ring’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably 35 Cal. 2d 49 - Lorenson v. Superior Court (1950), 68 Cal. 2d 864 - Gerhard v. Stephens (1968)
30 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 R.I. Bar Asso. v. Auto. Service Asso. · People v. . Alfani · 7 Ind. App. 529 - Eley v. Miller · State Bar of California v. Superior Court · People v. Merchants Protective Corp.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [ 168 Cal.App.2d Supp. 795 ] phrase 'practicing law' or its equivalent 'the practice of law' has long had a sufficiently definite meaning throughout this country to be given a place in constitutional and statutory law without further definition. ... [8] Words used in creating a statutory crime do not fail of such certainty merely because the offense when viewed through them may not have all the precision in outline of a geometrical figure; if the main and central part of the field of view is clear, some slight lack of definition around its outer edges is not fatal. [9] General terms may be used in a statute to describe things according to the common understanding of such terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Daniel“as the term is generally understood, the practice of law is the doing and performing services in a court of justice in any matter depending therein throughout its various stages and in conformity with the adopted rules of procedure. But in a larger sense it includes legal advice and counsel and the preparation of legal instruments and contracts by which legal rights are secured although such matter may or may not be depending in court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Agran v. Shapiro“as used in the earlier statute “must be construed distributively as to each count in a complaint, where it contains more than one, there being in legal effect as many actions as there are counts.”
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.