Finch v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 49 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 15 Cal. 3d 774 - Townsend v. Superior Court · Bradpiece v. State Bar · 3 Cal. 3d 381 - Demain v. State Bar · 13 Cal. 3d 253 - Spindell v. State Bar · 6 Cal. 3d 551 - Ridley v. State Bar
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grievous breach of professional ethics and morality [which] is certain to endanger the confidence of the public in the legal profession.”
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.