51 Cal. 3d 215 - Howard v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 15 Cal. 3d 878 - Segretti v. State Bar · 38 Cal. 3d 525 - Smith v. State Bar · 37 Cal. 3d 122 - Tarver v. State Bar · 49 Cal. 3d 804 - Baker v. State Bar · 43 Cal. 3d 1357 - Lawhorn v. State Bar
Most-quoted passages
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“[w]hen evidence of alcohol abuse at the time of an attorney's professional misconduct is coupled with evidence that the abuse was addictive in nature and casually contributed to the misconduct, and when the attorney demonstrates a meaningful and sustained period of successful rehabilitation, such evidence should be considered as a factor in mitigation of disciplinary CT Page 7084 sanctions”
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.