40 Cal. 3d 586 - Chasteen v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
43 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bradpiece v. State Bar · 36 Cal. 3d 116 - Chefsky v. State Bar · 37 Cal. 3d 1 - Alberton v. State Bar · 3 Cal. 3d 381 - Demain v. State Bar · 37 Cal. 3d 122 - Tarver v. State Bar
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Our principal concern is always the protection of the public, the preservation of confidence in the legal profession, and the maintenance of the highest possible professional standard for attorneys.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.