People v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2019
21 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any sanction less than disbarment would depreciate the seriousness of [James's] misconduct in the eyes of both the profession and the public.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Swarts · People v. ZODROW“in determining that the lawyer's continued practice of law while under a suspension order warranted disbarment). See Annotated Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions at 388 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Swarts
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.