In re Gardner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Virginia disciplinary rules provide that illegal conduct that adversely reflects on a Respondent’s fitness to practice law is grounds for discipline. The applicable parallel rule in the District of Columbia at the time that Respondent committed the disciplinary violation in Virginia was DR 1-102(A)(3) which provides that a lawyer shall not “engage in illegal conduct involving moral turpitude, that adversely re-. fleets on his fitness to practice.” (Emphasis added) (sic).... However, consistent with our prior decisions, we find that simple possession of cocaine does not constitute conduct involving moral turpitude, and therefore, there was no violation of DR 1-102(A)(3).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Gardner

2. “[c]ommit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, .or fitness as a lawyer in other respects_”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Gardner