Wolfe's Disbarment’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably Schlesinger Appeal (1961), Montgomery County Bar Ass'n v. Rinalducci (1938)
39 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 Dent v. State of West Virginia · Ex parte Garland · Wall · In re Davies · In re Gottesfeld
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before admission to the bar the court must be satisfied of the moral fitness of an applicant, and, if it subsequently learns that the attorney is no longer to be trusted, it becomes its duty on proper application, to see that he ceases to be held out as worthy of professional employment: Davies’s Case, 93 Pa. 116 . The exercise of this power is inherent in the court, and not limited by reason of the legislative provision for summary proceedings, where money of a client has been improperly retained, especially directed by the Act of 1834 (April 14, P. L. 333, section 74) ; Graffius’s Case, 241 Pa. 222 ; Balogh v. Jackson, 272 Pa. 482 .””
2 later decisions 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.