The Florida Bar v. Bern’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 189 W. Va. 262 - Committee on Legal Ethics of the West Virginia State Bar v. Cometti (1993), 756 So. 2d 79 - The Florida Bar v. Frederick (2000)
28 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 The Florida Bar v. Vernell · 362 So. 2d 12 - The Florida Bar v. Rubin · 386 So. 2d 523 - The Florida Bar v. Greenspahn · The Florida Bar v. Solomon · 399 So. 2d 978 - The Florida Bar v. Leopold
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Court deals more harshly with cumulative misconduct than it does with isolated misconduct.”
9 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.