47 Cal. 3d 952 - Ridge v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Ramirez v. Fuselier (In Re Ramirez) (1995), MATTER OF DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING AGAINST McKEAN (2003)
3 district · 29 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 37 Cal. 3d 1 - Alberton v. State Bar · 43 Cal. 3d 543 - Greenbaum v. State Bar · 38 Cal. 3d 525 - Smith v. State Bar · 37 Cal. 3d 122 - Tarver v. State Bar · 15 Cal. 3d 973 - Doyle 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is outrageous [to suggest] that a client must personally search the public record to try to learn of the status of his cases or approach an attorney's landlord in an attempt to retrieve his case files.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Our principal concern is always the protection of the public, the preservation of confidence in the legal profession, and the maintenance of the highest possible professional standard for attorneys.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[a]n attorney who accepts the responsibility of a fiduciary nature is held to the high standards of the legal profession whether or not he acts in his capacity of an attorney.'”
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.