Mildner v. Gulotta’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002 · most notably Levin v. Gulotta (1976), Doe v. Pringle (1976)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Monroe v. Pape · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Pierson v. Ray · O'Shea v. Littleton
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] disciplinary hearing is not a full-blown trial, but an inquest--a gathering of facts concerning the conduct of an attorney, a subject more likely to be illuminated by the evidence of the attorney's own acts than by what is said or not said by someone else.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Perhaps the most important element of such proceedings, and that which gives them their unique status, is the universal recognition that the same Court before whom attorneys, acting as its officers are admitted to practice is the tribunal which must sit in judgment of charges of professional misconduct against them. There can be no doubt about such a court's inherent power of autonomous control over the conduct of its officers. [footnote omitted]. Disciplinary proceedings, while perhaps susceptible to such a label as `quasi-criminal' or to such a terse description as `comparable to a criminal rather than to a civil proceeding' (citation omitted), are in reality neither.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]ith all respect to the Supremacy Clause, we do not construe § 1983 or our constitutional question jurisdiction as authorizing an inferior federal court to pass upon the procedure employed by the State courts to discipline attorneys ... or to interfere with their judgment of such matters... . That is not to say that disciplined attorneys have no remedy. Rather, we believe that attorneys above all should know that the State court [sic] expound and apply the Constitution, and if they do so erroneously, the remedy is to apply to the [United States] Supreme Court for review.”
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.