8 Cal. 3d 910 - Ames v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably People v. Corona (1978), 6 Cal. 4th 409 - Howard v. Babcock (1993)
3 district · 42 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 64 Cal. 2d 787 - Zitny v. State Bar of California · Anderson v. Eaton · 69 Cal. 2d 17 - Trafton v. Youngblood · In Re Blaney · 6 Cal. 3d 909 - Bernstein v. State Bar
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Rules of Professional Conduct are intended not only to establish ethical standards for members of the bar [citation], but are also designed to protect the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where it is reasonably foreseeable that his acquisition may be detrimental, i.e., adverse, to the interests of his client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The imposition of penalty does not issue from a fixed formula but from a balanced consideration of the relevant factors.”
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.