Ex Parte Newton’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1982
10 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 Ex Parte Thompson · In Re Fite · Ex Parte Grace · Ex Parte Cooke · Autrey v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As stated in Ex parte Newton, 265 Ala. 650 , 93 So.2d 164 : “ 'In reviewing disbarment proceedings hefore the Board of Commissioners, this Court possesses inherent power as well as specific statutory authority to take such action as is agreeable to our judgment; and we may adopt the findings and conclusions of the Commissioners or may alter or modify them.’ (Numerous citations omitted.)””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No person licensed to practice law in the courts of the State of Alabama shall be guilty of any conduct unbecoming an attorney at law.” (239 Ala. XXV).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Carroll
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.