Handelman v. Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Hull v. Celanese Corp. (1975), Woods v. Covington County Bank (1976)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 558 · 15 U.S.C. § 77V (§ 22 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78C (§ 3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78E (§ 5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78F (§ 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78I (§ 9 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78O (§ 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · United States v. Sisson · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Oklahoma Retail Grocers Ass'n · Emle Industries, Inc. v. Patentex, Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After a lawyer leaves judicial office or other public employment, he should not accept employment in connection with any matter in which he had substantial responsibility prior to his leaving, since to accept employment would give the appearance of impropriety even if none exists.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A lawyer shall not accept private employment in a matter in which he had substantial responsibility while he was a public employee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Disciplinary Rules state the minimum level of conduct below which no lawyer can fall without being subject to disciplinary action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.