34 Cal. 3d 150 - Hightower v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 50 Cal. 3d 1061 - Kwasnik v. State Bar (1990), 43 Cal. 3d 1041 - Pacheco v. State Bar (1987)
28 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 Konigsberg v. State Bar of Cal. · 65 Cal. 2d 447 - Hallinan v. Committee of Bar Examiners · March v. Committee of Bar Examiners · 25 Cal. 3d 730 - Hall v. Committee of Bar Examiners · 69 Cal. 2d 90 - Bernstein v. Committee of Bar Examiners
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has committed or is likely to continue to commit acts of moral turpitude.”
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.