Lathrop v. Donohue’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
118 federal appellate · 60 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 444 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Buckley v. Valeo (1976), District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman (1983)
118 federal appellate · 60 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 23 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 331 · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
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 444 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“elevat[e] the educational and ethical standards of the Bar to the end of improving the quality of the legal service available to the people of the State, without reference to the political process. It cannot be denied that this is a legitimate end of state policy. We think that the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in order to further the State’s legitimate interests in raising the quality of professional services, may constitutionally require that the costs of improving the profession in this fashion should be shared by the subjects and beneficiaries of the regulatory program, the lawyers, even though the organization created to attain the objective also engages in some legislative activity.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage““For me, there is a short and simple answer to all of this. The [Railway Employes Dept. v.] Hanson case, 351 U.S. 225 , 76 S.Ct. 714 , 100 L.Ed. 1112 , decided by a unanimous Court, surely lays at rest all doubt that a State may Constitutionally condition the right to practice law upon membership in an integrated bar association, a condition fully as justified by state needs as the union shop is by federal needs. Indeed the conclusion reached in Hanson with respect to compulsory union membership seems to me a fortiori true here, in light of the supervisory powers which the State, through its courts, has traditionally exercised over admission to the practice of law, see Konigsberg v. State Bar of California, 366 U.S. 36 , 81 S.Ct. 997 , 6 L.Ed.2d 105 ; In re Anastaplo, 366 U.S. 82 , 81 S.Ct. 978 , 6 L.Ed.2d 135 , and over the conduct of lawyers after admission, see Cohen v. Hurley, 366 U.S. 117 , 81 S.Ct. 954 , 6 L.Ed.2d 156 . The Integrated Bar was in fact treated as such an a fortiori case in the Hanson opinion itself. Supra, 351 U.S. at page 238 , 76 S.Ct. at page 721 . So much, indeed, is recognized by the plurality opinion which rejects the contention that Wisconsin could not Constitutionally require appellant, a lawyer, to become and remain a dues-paying member of the State Bar.” 367 U.S. at 849, 850 , 81 S.Ct. at 1841.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“so great as to amount to a difference in substance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.