In Re Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably People Ex Rel. Illinois State Bar Ass'n v. Peoples Stock Yards State Bank (1931), People v. . Alfani (1919)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is too obvious for discussion that the practice of law is not limited to the conduct of cases in courts. According to the generally understood definition of the practice of law in this country, it embraces ,the preparation of pleadings, and other papers incident to actions and special proceedings, and the management of such actions and proceedings on behalf of clients before judges and courts, and, in addition, conveyancing, the preparation of legal instruments of all kinds, and, in general, all advice to clients, and all action taken for -them in matters connected with the law. An attorney at law is one who engages in any of these branches of the practice of law.”’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.