Leis v. Flynt’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
261 federal appellate · 87 district · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 830 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bell v. Wolfish (1979), District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman (1983)
261 federal appellate · 87 district · 170 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFlynt v. Leis (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Younger v. Harris · Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis
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 830 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prescribe the qualifications for admission to practice and the standards of professional conduct”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rather they are created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A constitutional entitlement cannot 'be created ... merely because a wholly and expressly discretionary state privilege has been granted generously in the past.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.