46 Cal. 3d 1004 - Brookman v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Matter of Levine (1993), 50 Cal. 3d 1061 - Kwasnik v. State Bar (1990)
33 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 11 U.S.C. § 525
Relies on Kelly v. Robinson · 12 Cal. 3d 305 - Grimes v. Hoschler · 20 Cal. 3d 552 - Inniss v. State Bar · 44 Cal. 3d 665 - Coppock v. State Bar · 43 Cal. 3d 729 - Kent 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rehabilitating culpable attorneys (and protecting the public) by forcing the attorney to 'confront, in concrete terms, the harm his actions have caused.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is clearly for the benefit of the public at large, not the underlying victim.... Because such restitution fundamentally serves the goal of rehabilitation, it is not merely compensation to the government for `actual pecuniary loss.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has not paid a debt that... was discharged under the Bankruptcy Act.”
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.