28 Cal. 3d 683 - Lewis v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 31 Cal. 3d 637 - In Re Marriage of Flaherty (1982), 45 Cal. 3d 589 - Hawk v. State Bar (1988)
60 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 23 Cal. 2d 501 - Friday v. State Bar · Call v. State Bar
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the problems inherent in using disciplinary proceedings to punish attorneys for negligence, mistakes in judgment, or lack of experience or legal knowledge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A member of the State Bar shall not acquire an interest adverse to a client.”
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.