Brotsky v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 12 Cal. 3d 512 - McCartney v. Commission on Judicial Qualifications (1974), 11 Cal. 3d 210 - Emslie v. State Bar (1974)
110 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 56 Cal. 2d 355 - Greyhound Corp. v. Superior Court · 54 Cal. 2d 548 - Chronicle Publishing Co. v. Superior Court · Brydonjack v. State Bar · People ex rel. Mulford v. Turner · Barton v. State Bar of Cal.
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]istorically, the courts, alone, have controlled admission, discipline and disbarment of persons entitled to practice before them.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“to the issuance of subpoenas for attendance of witnesses to appear and testify or produce books and papers....”
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.