Mason v. Departmental Disciplinary Committee’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 512 · 1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2018
7 federal appellate ·
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 Younger v. Harris · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · Brewer v. United States
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.
“refusal to halt the [attorney disciplinary] inquiry at its incipient stage provides no basis for believing that [the court] will be reluctant to entertain any legitimate objections [the attorney] may have in the event that disciplinary sanctions are improperly imposed”
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.