In re Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 12 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably Supreme Court of NH v. Piper (1985), Montana Automobile Ass'n v. Greely (1981)
21 federal appellate · 12 district · 27 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.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is undisputed that New York has a constitutionally permissible interest to assure that those admitted to the Bar possess knowledge of the law as well as the character and fitness requisite for an attorney. But appellant has not been excluded from membership in the Bar due to any challenge to his knowledge of the law of this State or to his good character. Rather, the exclusion is based solely upon his residence in North Carolina-a criterion which serves no purpose other than to deny persons the right to pursue their professional career objectives because of parochial interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States . . . shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]emedies currently available to safeguard against abuses by resident attorneys — contempt, disciplinary proceedings and malpractice actions — can be applied with equal force against miscreant nonresident attorneys. 16”
1 later decision 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.