Poats v. Givan’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 495 · 1981
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Scinto v. Stamm (1993), Giannini v. Real (1990)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur · Vlandis v. Kline · Texas v. Louisiana
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rational connection with the [attorney's] fitness or capacity to practice law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.