Carter v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Cleveland v. U.S. Printing Ink, Inc. (1991), State v. Nguyen (2000)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 39 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MATTER OF McENANEY
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.