In Re Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2022
1 federal appellate · 6 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 115 Wash. 2d 747 - Matter of Disciplinary Proceeding Against Curran · 39 Cal. 3d 729 - In Re Nevill · Louisiana State Bar Ass'n v. Guidry · 98 Wash. 2d 337 - In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against McGrath · In Re Morris
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjhen a gun is drawn against another person, ... the risk that someone could be seriously injured or killed is always present.” Focusing on the gravity of the harm and the lack of mitigating factors, the court disbarred the respondent. The board noted that like Martin and Brown , domestic violence was the focus of the incident in the instant matter, though fortunately, the result of respondent’s violent conduct was not as severe as in those two cases. Rather, it was closer in severity to that seen in Estiveme. . Supreme Court Rule XIX, § 24(A) provides,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Brown] demonstrated a violent reaction to an admittedly non-threatening situation. Her response to this apparently stressful situation creates concern regarding her continued ability to represent clients given the pressures associated with the practice of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Conviction of a crime may warrant disbarment, even though the crime was not directly connected with the practice of law.”
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.