50 Cal. 3d 889 - Layton v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 14 Cal. 3d 524 - In Re Kreamer · 43 Cal. 3d 543 - Greenbaum v. State Bar · 2 Cal. 3d 719 - Simmons v. State Bar · 15 Cal. 3d 973 - Doyle v. State Bar · 41 Cal. 3d 493 - In Re Severo
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot escape responsibility for his failure ... by blaming his secretary”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]n attorney has an obligation to adequately supervise his employees”
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.