722 So. 2d 662 - In Re Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2018
12 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 492 So. 2d 578 - Williams v. Mississippi State Bar Ass'n · 649 So. 2d 825 - Matter of Reinstatement to Practice Law of Underwood · In Re Petition of Mathes · 699 So. 2d 593 - Matter of Pace · 702 So. 2d 423 - Petition of Robb
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) No person disbarred or suspended for a period of six months or longer shall be reinstated to the privilege of practicing law except upon petition to the Court. (b) Reinstatement to the practice of law following any discipline shall be only upon proof of compliance with any such sanctions.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he Court's fundamental inquiry is whether [the attorney] has rehabilitated himself in conduct and character since the suspension was imposed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] firm resolve to live a correct life evidenced by outward manifestation sufficient to convince a reasonable mind clearly that ... [he] has reformed[.]”
2 later decisions 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.