29 Cal. 3d 120 - In Re Conflenti’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably 41 Cal. 3d 493 - In Re Severo (1986), 37 Cal. 3d 163 - In Re Possino (1984)
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 Bradpiece v. State Bar · 9 Cal. 3d 704 - Lewis v. State Bar · 10 Cal. 3d 742 - Bradpiece v. State Bar · 5 Cal. 3d 714 - In Re Plotner · 27 Cal. 3d 199 - Marcus 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not so much *Page 503 to punish [an attorney] as to ascertain his fitness to practice law.”
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.