35 Cal. 3d 274 - Ballard v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 43 Cal. 3d 658 - Rosenthal v. State Bar (1987), 43 Cal. 3d 962 - Guzzetta v. State Bar (1987)
49 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 Bradpiece v. State Bar · 8 Cal. 3d 842 - In Re Fahey · 14 Cal. 3d 524 - In Re Kreamer · 6 Cal. 3d 551 - Ridley v. State Bar · 10 Cal. 3d 742 - Bradpiece v. State Bar
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The purpose of a disciplinary proceeding is not punitive but to inquire into the fitness of the lawyer to continue in that capacity for the protection of the public, the courts, and the legal profession.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“refund the unearned portion of advanced fees upon being discharged or withdrawing from employment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“violated rule 8-101 in his handling of funds held in trust for six individual clients,”
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.