48 Cal. 2d 69 - In Re Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 214 - Morrison v. State Board of Education (1969), Yakov v. Board of Medical Examiners (1968)
32 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 In Re Phillips · Board of Dental Examiners v. Lazzell · Marsh v. State Bar of California · Kravis v. Hock
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`everything done contrary to justice, honesty, modesty, or good morals' ( In re McAllister, 14 Cal.2d 602, 603 [ 95 P.2d 932 ]; In re Hatch, 10 Cal.2d 147, 150 [ 73 P.2d 885 ]) and as `[a]n act of baseness, vileness or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellow men or to society in general, contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between man and man' ( In re Boyd, 48 Cal.2d 69, 70 [ 307 P.2d 625 ]; In re Craig, 12 Cal.2d 93, 97 [ 82 P.2d 442 ]).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In bar discipline proceedings under section 6101 of the Business and Professions Code, the respondent's conviction of an offense stands as conclusive proof that the accused committed all acts necessary to constitute the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is enough to say that such conduct is unworthy of a member of the legal profession.”
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.