In Re Stanton’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2010
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Riverbend Farms, Inc. v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board · Komen v. Robbins · Neshewat v. Hagstrom · In Re Roundtree · In Re Stanton
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Stanton purports to have pledged to comply with this court’s disciplinary rules, we cannot have confidence on this record that such rules will not conflict with what he perceives as a “higher duty” or “create [] harm that his conscience cannot condone.” Stanton’s numerous qualifications to his asserted pledge to follow his ethical obligations in this jurisdiction compel our conclusion that he has not met his burden of proving fitness with reference to the Round-tree criteria focusing on future misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Stanton“Specifically, Stanton states that he has shown his fitness to practice because he “recognizes his duty to comply with the rulings of the D.C. Court of Appeals so long as they remain in force regardless of his view or of their apparent wisdom or folly unless a ruling conflicts with a higher duty, and compliance causes harm that his conscience cannot countenance or condone.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Stanton
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.