People v. Bergner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A private censure, because it does not inform the public about a lawyer’s misconduct, “should be used only when the lawyer is negligent, when the ethical violation results in little or no injury to a client, the public, the legal system, or the profession, and when there is little or no likelihood of repetition.” ABA Standards 2.6 (commentary).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Blundell · People v. Cabral

2. “engaged in his offensive, inappropriate, and highly unprofessional conduct, the client was in the respondent’s vehicle traveling to the client’s dissolution of marriage hearing. The client was dependent on the respondent’s professional judgment, and ability, and had the right to expect that the respondent’s conduct would conform to professional and fiduciary standards.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Meier