In Re Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2019
8 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 Goldsborough · In Re Reback · In Re Roundtree · In Re Steele · In Re Ryan
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Acts or omissions by an attorney ... which violate ... the rules or code of professional conduct currently in effect in the District of Columbia shall constitute misconduct and shall be grounds for discipline.... Any of the following shall also be grounds for discipline: ... Failure to comply with any order of the Court or the Board issued pursuant to this rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Steinberg“In re Wright, 702 A.2d 1251, 1254 (D.C. 1997) (quoting In re Reback, 487 A.2d 235, 238 (D.C. 1985), adopted in relevant part, 513 A.2d 226 (D.C. 1986) (en banc) (“Reback //”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Speights“It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct that seriously interferes with the administration of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Steinberg
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.