In Re Perrin’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2018
17 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 United States v. American Trucking Associations · Blackledge v. Allison · In Re Goldsborough · Parreco v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission · In Re Hutchinson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On its face, [the reciprocal discipline rule] requires the court to impose reciprocal discipline in every case in which a member of our Bar is disciplined elsewhere unless the attorney proves that at least one of the exceptions applies. Literal application, however, leads to absurd results. According to the strict terms of the Rule, we would be obliged to apply reciprocal discipline no matter how far our own proceedings had progressed, or even if they had been completed and if this court had already imposed a different sanction of its own, unless there was a major and substantial difference between the foreign state’s practice and our own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Each jurisdiction has its own statutes and rules. If the District’s proceedings, based on its own standards and a careful evaluation of the attorney’s conduct in light of those standards, conclude with the selection of one sanction, then it would surely be irrational to impose, instead, a different sanction which was selected on the basis of a different factual record under another jurisdiction’s laws and rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it simply makes no sense to disregard the Committee's findings and the Board's recommendation in favor of the other jurisdiction's sanction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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