In Re Doughty’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2022
11 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 Tolchin v. Supreme Court of New Jersey · In Re Bailey · In Re Reardon · In Re a Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Delaware Figliola · In Re a Member of the Bar of the State Mekler
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lawyer's duty to maintain proper books and records exist for the purpose of protecting not only the lawyer but the lawyer's clients, and the failure to fulfill that duty presents serious risks to the lawyer's clients, even if no actual harm results.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Respondent's misconduct in this case violated his duties to his clients, to the legal system, and to the profession. Although no actual injury resulted, that does not mean that the risk to the Respondent's clients in particular and the public in general were insignificant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: ... (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; (d) engage in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice .... 49”
1 later decision 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.