Arden v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 214 - Morrison v. State Board of Education (1969), 11 Cal. 3d 436 - Yokozeki v. State Bar (1974)
6 federal appellate · 54 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 21 Cal. App. 2d 18 - Croce v. Superior Court · Petty v. Superior Court · 25 Cal. 2d 149 - Fall v. State Bar · Light v. State Bar · Lindenbaum v. State Bar
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Rule 5] A member of the State Bar shall not accept employment adverse to a client or former client, without the consent of the client or former client, relating to a matter in reference to which he has obtained confidential information by reason of or in the course of his employment by such client or former client. [Rule 7] A member of the State Bar shall not represent conflicting interests, except with the consent of all parties concerned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * The issue is a highly debatable one. No clear-cut rule on the subject has been announced. It is not proper to discipline an attorney for a violation of a claimed principle that was and is so highly debatable.” Arden v. State Bar of California, 52 Cal.2d 310, 319 , 341 P.2d 6, 11 (1959).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`conduct which is contrary to justice, honesty and good morals'”
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.