Schofield Discipline Case’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably Dombrowski v. Philadelphia (1968), Slater v. Rimar, Inc. (1975)
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 United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Sparf v. United States · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Wall
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that professional misconduct may also be a contempt does not bring disciplinary proceedings within the rule that one court will not punish for contempt of another tribunal. The respondent is not now charged with contempt of court but with misbehavior in his office of attorney. * * * A contempt proceeding for misbehavior in court is designed to vindicate the authority of the court; on the other hand the object of a disciplinary proceeding is to deal with the fitness of the court’s officer to continue in that office, to preserve and protect the court and the public from the official ministration of persons unfit or unworthy to hold such office.” (P. 692)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Isserman
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.