In Re Isserman’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 12 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably In Re Disbarment of Isserman (1954), Biggers v. State of Tennessee (1968)
44 federal appellate · 12 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Dennis v. United States · Sacher v. United States · Selling v. Radford · United States v. Dennis
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * There is no vested right in an individual to practice law. Rather there is a right in the Court to protect itself, and hence society, as an instrument of justice. That to the individual disbarred there is a loss of status is incidental to the purpose of the Court and cannot deter the Court from its duty to strike from its rolls one who has engaged in conduct inconsistent with the standard expected of officers of the Court.” (Italics ours.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“What remains is a finding that he was guilty of several unplanned contumacious outbursts during a long and bitter trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Disbarment by a state does not automatically disbar members of our bar, but this Court will, in the absence of some' grave reason to the contrary, follow the finding of the state that the character requisite for membership in the bar is lacking.”
2 later decisions 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.