28 Cal. 3d 465 - Giovanazzi v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Attorney Grievance Commission v. Glenn (1996), 36 Cal. 3d 785 - Palomo v. State Bar (1984)
94 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 North Carolina v. Alford · In the Matter of John Ruffalo Jr · 3 Cal. 3d 595 - People v. West · 11 Cal. 3d 210 - Emslie v. State Bar · 68 Cal. 2d 162 - Endler v. Schutzbank
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]ross carelessness and negligence constitute violations of the oath of an attorney to faithfully discharge his duties to the best of his knowledge and ability, and involve moral turpitude as they breach the fiduciary relationship owed to clients.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he mere fact that the balance in an attorney's trust account has fallen below the total of amounts deposited in and purportedly held in trust, supports a conclusion of misappropriation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“good faith of an attorney is a matter to be considered in determining whether discipline should be imposed for acts done through ignorance or mistake”
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.