Hildebrand v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2006 · most notably National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button (1963), Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia Ex Rel. Virginia State Bar (1964)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 Peck v. the State Bar · Herrscher v. State Bar · Hildebrand v. State Bar · Burke v. State Bar of California · Ryan v. Pennsylvania Railroad
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is our conclusion that the ends of justice will be served by dismissing the present proceeding without disciplinary action, thereby permitting this opinion, as the first expression of the views of this court upon the subject to serve prospectively as a guide to the members of the profession generally, rather than to serve retrospectively to the detriment of petitioners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Treu v. Kirkwood
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.