In Re Robert J Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
235 federal appellate · 39 district · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 817 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Braley v. Campbell (1987), Frazier v. Heebe (1987)
235 federal appellate · 39 district · 151 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedIn re Snyder (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act)
Relies on Theard v. United States · Ex parte Garland · Burr · People Ex Rel. Karlin v. Culkin
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 817 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [i]t is clear that "conduct unbecoming a member of the bar" is conduct contrary to professional standards that shows an unfit-' ness to discharge continuing obligations to clients or the courts, or conduct inimical to the administration of justice. More specific guidance is provided by case law, applicable court rules, and "the lore of the profession," as embodied in codes of professional conduct.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`conduct unbecoming a member of the bar' [or] conduct contrary to professional standards that shows an unfitness to discharge continuing obligations to clients or the courts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Girardi · No. 02-15113“[f]ederal courts admit and suspend attorneys as an exercise of their inherent power[,] the standards imposed are a matter of federal law.”
8 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.