In re Orton’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1968
7 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That an order prohibiting an attorney from practicing law, which practically, deprives him of the means of supporting himself and family — which blasts all his prospects for professional fame and eminence, and leaves a stain on his good name and character, — is an order affecting a substantial right, is a proposition too plain for discussion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cannon
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.