Sullivan v. Committee on Admissions & Grievances of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia’s Empirical Analysis
395 F.2d 954 · 1967
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. (1971), Bowers 05-2269 v. National Collegiate Athletic Association Ncaa
23 federal appellate · 5 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 Gage v. Riggs National Bank of Washington, D. C. · John Franklin Gage v. The Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C., Administrator, Estate of Margaret Delano Gage, Etc., Deceased · John Franklin Gage v. The Riggs National Bank of Washington, D. C.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the District Court concluded for appropriate reasons not to impose sanctions in this case. However, the District Court ... determined that [the attorney] was guilty of proscribed conduct and this determination plainly reflect[ed] adversely on his professional reputation....”
1 later decision 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.