Carter v. Gonnella’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
3
states following
August 1998
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Committee on Professional Ethics & Conduct of the Iowa State Bar Ass'n v. Silver · Carter v. Ross
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Those who equate lawyer discipline cases with criminal prosecutions fail to grasp the perspective in which we view the proceedings. To be sure, a criminal act sometimes precipitates a lawyer disciplinary proceeding. But the proceeding is not strictly criminal in nature. Its purpose is not alone, or even primarily, intended to punish the lawyer. Rather the primary goal in disciplinary cases is to protect the public.” Committee of Professional Ethics and Conduct of the Iowa State Bar Association v. Silver, 395 N.W.2d 877, 879 (Iowa 1986).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. McCarthy
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.