In Re Mentrup’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2015
11 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 In Re Oliver · Matter of Alpers · In re Kohlmeyer · In re Robison · In re Starr
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is always a ground for disbarment of an attorney that he has misappropriated the funds of his client, either by failing to pay over money collected by him for his client or by appropriating to his own use funds entrusted to his care, [citation omitted]. That respondent has made restitution of the converted funds is no defense to the charges.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mental illness can and should be considered a mitigating factor in determining the extent of discipline imposed. In some instances psychological disorders that affect an attorney’s ability to practice law responsibly may properly suggest leniency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Belz
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.