Tobkin v. Jarboe’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2018
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 Duhart v. State · 558 So. 2d 1008 - Florida Bar re Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar · 695 So. 2d 1257 - Tobkin v. Jarboe
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the sake of maintaining the high standards of the profession and disci plining those who violate the Canons of Legal Ethics, one who elects to enjoy the status and benefits as a member of the legal profession must give up certain rights or causes of action which, in this instance, is the right to file an action against a complainant who lodges an unsuccessful complaint with the Grievance Committee of The Florida Bar.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We acknowledge the possibility that groundless or baseless complaints against attorneys may sometimes be filed by individuals. However, Bar complainants must be encouraged to step forward with legitimate complaints, which will further the important public policy of disciplining attorney misconduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. D.A.R. v. R.E.L. · D.A.R. v. R.E.L.“[T]hat an individual who files a complaint against an attorney and makes no public announcement of the complaint, thereby allowing the grievance procedure to run its natural course, is afforded absolute immunity from a defamation action by the complained-against attorney. However, if, after filing a complaint, the complainant comments publicly or outside the grievance process, then the afforded immunity ceases to exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rutherford
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.