6 Cal. 3d 562 - In Re Higbie’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
207 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 301 - People v. Castro (1985), 11 Cal. 3d 436 - Yokozeki v. State Bar (1974)
207 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Leary v. United States · Yakov v. Board of Medical Examiners · 43 Cal. 2d 243 - In Re Hallinan · 4 Cal. 3d 786 - Himmel v. State Bar · 65 Cal. 2d 447 - Hallinan v. Committee of Bar Examiners
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"does not constitute `an act of baseness, vileness, or depravity ... contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between man and man.' ( In re Craig, supra, 12 Cal.2d [93] at p. 97, 82 P.2d [442] at p. 444), or indicate that an attorney is unable to meet the professional and fiduciary duties of his practice."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to ensure that the public, the courts, and the profession are protected against unsuitable legal practitioners. [Citations.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"contains no requirement of wrongful intent or intent to defraud the government [and that] an individual may be convicted [of the federal crime of failure to pay the tax] by virtue of his possession of marijuana and his failure, however inadvertent, to pay the tax."”
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.