In Re Heller’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 1990
7 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 Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Konigsberg v. State Bar of Cal.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) MORAL CHARACTER AND GENERAL FITNESS TO PRACTICE LAW. No applicant shall be certified for admission by the Committee until a careful examination has been made into the applicant’s moral character and general fitness to practice law and a favorable report is rendered thereon. The Committee may give notice of the application by advertisement in a newspaper or posting of a public notice. (e) QUANTUM AND BURDEN OF PROOF. The burden of demonstrating, by a preponderance of the evidence, that an applicant is qualified and fit to practice law in the District of Columbia shall be upon the applicant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Manville
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.