In re Lyon’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2004
2 district · 20 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 Bernard Selling v. George W Radford · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate · In re Shoe Manufacturers Protective Ass'n · In re Ulmer
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The regulation in the public interest of occupations and professions such as those of law, medicine and others which, if uncontrolled, may develop methods and practices inimical to the public welfare, is historically and logically, and we think also legally, a matter primarily of State concern. . . . When such practice is carried on by unauthorized persons the resulting evils are the same and reach out into the community in the same way as if the subject matter related to litigation in State courts. It would be almost impossible to separate the practice of law by persons practicing in both jurisdictions into two watertight compartments and regulation based upon an attempt to do so involving joint or complementary action by each jurisdiction as to each item of conduct would be weak and ineffectual. 301 Mass, at 34-35, 16 N.E.2d at 76 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e see no reason why our policy or statute should give way in favor of persons who seek to escape State regulation of the practice of law on the ground that their practice is within the field of Federal jurisdiction, when they are not authorized to practice in that jurisdiction. Within these limits enforcement of our act according to its terms does not interfere with any Federal function. 301 Mass, at 35-36, 16 N.E.2d at 77 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"To determine whether a law suit may properly be commenced, and therefore whether it is justifiable to threaten to commence it, requires special knowledge of the legal elements constituting a cause of action. To make a business of acting for or advising others in these matters partakes of the practice of 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.