O'brien's Petition’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010 · most notably Konigsberg v. State Bar of Cal. (1961), 65 Cal. 2d 447 - Hallinan v. Committee of Bar Examiners (1966)
3 federal appellate · 92 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Wall · Fairfield County Bar v. Taylor · Baldwin v. Miles · Ætna National Bank v. Charter Oak Life Insurance · Macready v. Wilcox
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court is but indifferently adapted to the task of passing upon the qualifications for engaging in legal practice of those who appear before it as strangers, which are personal to themselves and independent of educational attainments. These can be easily determined by a bar, to some at least of whom they will not be strangers. A court could only proceed, in such a matter, on testimony given in public. The bar can act upon their own knowledge, or *Page 211 upon statements made before them in private, and without the formality of an oath.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The inalienable right of every American citizen to follow any of the common industrial occupations of life does not extend to the pursuit of professions or vocations of such a nature as to require peculiar skill or supervision for the public welfare.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Scott“The Superior Court, therefore, rightly declined to hear evidence as to questions the decision of which was entrusted to the State bar examining committee, and given to them only in case of those coming before them with the approval of the county bar.”
1 later decision 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.