Application of Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1999
4 federal appellate · 12 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 Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Konigsberg v. State Bar of Cal. · Leege v. Martin · Application of Houston
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) has passed a bar examination of another state or the District of Columbia ; (B) is a member in good standing of the bar of the state or the District of Columbia; (C) has been a resident of Alaska for at least three years before petitioning the court to be admitted; (D) has been actively employed in Alaska by a law firm or the state or federal government in work of a legal nature for at least three consecutive years; (E) the supreme court determines that it is in the best interest of those served by the legal profession that he be admitted, except that nothing in this paragraph shall permit the admission of an attorney who after June 30, 1965 has taken and failed to pass the Alaska bar examination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether or not we accept legislative standards or rules for admission to the practice of lav/ depends on whether they have a rational connection with one’s fitness to practice law in Alaska. We will hold that there is such a rational connection if application of the legislative standards has a reasonable tendency to determine whether an applicant has a sufficient knowledge of law in Alaska to hold himself out to the public that he is adequately prepared to assume efficiently the obligations and responsibilities commensurate with representing persons in legal matters. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Application of Park“We have taken jurisdiction pursuant to that provision of the Alaska Constitution vesting the judicial power of the state in this court and under the rule followed by the great majority of states which holds that the supreme court of a state has the inherent and final authority to determine the standards for admission to the practice of law in that state.”
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.