In Re Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably In Re Chastain (2000), In Re Murph (2002)
48 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 In the Matter of Treacy · In the Matter of Sifly · Matter of Dobson · Matter of Wofford · Matter of Meeder
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n attorney usually does not abandon a license to practice law without a fight. Those who do must understand that neglecting to participate [in a disciplinary proceeding] is entitled to substantial weight in determining the sanction. An attorney’s failure to answer charges or appear to defend or explain alleged misconduct indicates an obvious disinterest in the practice of law. Such an attorney is likely to face the most severe sanctions because a central purpose of the disciplinary process is to protect the public from unscrupulous or indifferent lawyers.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Murph · In re Rice
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.