3 Cal. 3d 381 - Demain v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
103
cited by 103 later decisions
1
states following
December 1989
most recently cited
100 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 2 Cal. 3d 719 - Simmons v. State Bar · Clancy v. State Bar · 53 Cal. 2d 605 - Resner v. State Bar · 66 Cal. 2d 680 - Grove 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of a disciplinary proceeding is not punitive but to inquire into the fitness of the attorney to continue in that capacity for the protection of the public, the courts, and the legal profession.”
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.