In Re Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Matter of Hollendonner (1985), Matter of Noonan (1986)
77 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments)
Relies on In Re Rosen · In Re Mirabelli · In Re Sears · In Re Stout · In Re McNally
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven if it is unlikely that the attorney will repeat the misconduct, certain acts by attorneys so impugn the integrity of the legal system that disbarment is the only appropriate means to restore public confidence in it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Greenberg · In Re Breslin
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.